Driving forces of agricultural expansion to new lands or induced intensification of cultivated arable lands

Current demand for agricultural products does not necessitate the development of unused arable and forage lands. Further technological modernization and intensification of currently used arable lands increasing the productivity can lead to decreasing import of dairy and meat products or, at worst, to a further reduction of the food production in the Russian Non- Black Earth Region with the loss of jobs and depopulation of rural areas. To preserve life in these rural territories, we need to have the state program to support agricultural producers with the creation of agroclusters for the production of dairy and meat products, and also growing and processing flax.