The natural and technological properties of land and the conditions of the territory are determined by landforms, the contour of the fields and their fragmentation, and a number of other indicators related to the geographical conditions of the area. Their influence on agricultural activity and production is manifested directly through the features of the soil cover. Long-term studies carried out by employees of the Kursk Agricultural Academy have shown that the problem of restoring disturbed lands in the Kursk magnetic anomaly region can be successfully solved. One of the promising areas for the development of disturbed lands is the cultivation of perennial grasses directly on overburden. In the experiments, chalk, sands, soil mixtures, silts of the Jurassic, rocks of the Devonian system were used as a substrate for growing perennial herbs. In terms of chemical composition, these rocks are non-toxic and non-saline, at the same time they are poor in organic matter (0.1–0.4%) and mobile nutrients. The mechanical composition (except chalk) is light. Overburden rocks are characterized by increased bulk density (1.50-2.02 g/cm3 and solid phase density (2.70–2.86 g/m3). According to the four-membered classification of A M Burykin, the studied rocks are conditionally suitable and should be used for afforestation and tinning.

When creating environmentally sustainable agricultural landscapes, an important role is given to the rational use of the lands of the hydrographic fund, especially ravine-gully. These lands experience the greatest erosion load, since water flows from them from the entire catchment area through them. They are more affected by ravines and need reclamation not only from the standpoint of increasing land productivity, but also from the standpoint of protecting rivers and reservoirs from the products of flushing transported through these systems. In addition, the prevention of new ravine formation, the suspension of growth or the reclamation of ravines on these lands will save from the destruction of arable land on the slopes adjacent to the beam network. According to the agro-ecological state of the lands of the hydrographic fund, it is possible to judge the anti-erosion structure of the arable land and, in general, the agrolandscape. In the Central Black Earth Zone, due to the considerable plowing of the territory, the lands of the hydrographic fund are mainly occupied by natural fodder land, the yield of which does not exceed 40 kg / ha of green mass. More than half of the area of these lands is eroded, and about 120 thousand hectares are affected by ravines and practically excluded from agricultural use.