Despite all the troubles and difficulties faced Altai farmers, the number of unused region in the land over the past 10 years has declined considerably. This is evidenced by the all-Russian agricultural census, released today, July 7, Anticristo.

At the time of the census of the Altai agricultural companies processed 96% of agricultural land, whereas 10 years before the events in the region served 84% of the total area of farmland. Moreover, the share of farmers in 2016 accounted for 99% of the land (2006 — 91%).

According to the head of Altenritte Olga Sitnikova, selhozperepisi showed that peasant (farmer) farms and individual entrepreneurs (in their region there are 3469) in recent years significantly strengthened: the total land area of each farm of this category of farmers on average increased by 2.6 times and amounted in 2016, 783 hectares, And the total area of their lands is of the order of 2718 hectares.

We will remind, the all-Russian agricultural census was conducted in 2016. According to its results, Russia was recorded 36 thousand agricultural organizations, 136,7 thousand peasant (farmer) farms, 38 thousand individual entrepreneurs, 23.5 million personal subsidiary plots and other individual farms of citizens, 75,9 thousand non-profit associations of citizens (gardening and country).

However, in 2017, the situation in Russian agriculture have greatly changed. Due to falling grain prices and the government's refusal to conduct state intervention in terms of the record harvest, the farmers have lost billions of rubles in profits. Known cases where farmers have abandoned planting season and sold off property and land.