Agriculture plays an important role in the economics of Belarus with 7.9 % of GDP and 8.1 % of population employed in agricultural sector (Agriculture of Republic of Belarus, 2013). Intensive agricultural production is the major direction of agriculture development in Belarus. It demands significant subsides and provides negative consequences on environment, including pollution of lands and water, degradation of soils. There are four main groups of agricultural land-users in Belarus:

1) state large scale farms (so called SPK – agricultural production cooperatives),

2) private farms,

3) homesteads with land up to 1 ha and small summerhouse plots (“datcha”) usually not more than 0.05 ha; in fact they are family farms .