Complex monitoring of using agricultural lands in the modern period

The current state of arable land and land areas, which are a key factor in the system of agricultural production, requires forming special systematic approaches to organizing the monitoring of using land resources. Being an object of the government and economic regulation in the modern period, land for agricultural purposes involves using a set of tools for monitoring of land use providing the increase of efficiency of using the land resource, conservation and reproduction of soil fertility and environmental protection. The purpose of the study is to identify a complex system of assessing the use of agricultural land and substantiate the need for using digital analytical tools. The article studies the complexity of the problem of monitoring agricultural land. So, the author considers the set of quantitative and financial indicators participating in the formation of system of analyzing the use of land resources in agriculture on the example of the country as a whole, its separate subjects, in particular. The paper considers the main indicators characterizing efficiency of use of agricultural lands in the Rostov region, reveals their regional features. The conducted statistical and economic analysis allows to identify and justify the main factors affecting the profitability of agricultural land in specific regional conditions. The author substantiates the necessity of digitalization of the monitoring process of agricultural land.