Abstract
<jats:p>A detailed analysis was conducted in the field of classifying lands as especially valuable productive agricultural lands and as suitable for viticulture in the Krasnodar Territory. The law of the Krasnodar Territory dated 05.11.2002, № 532 "On the Basics of Regulating Land Relations in the Krasnodar Territory" was reviewed, in which an inaccuracy was identified in the formulation regarding the classification of lands under perennial plantations as especially valuable lands. Lists of especially valuable agricultural lands, the regulation of which is established at the municipal level, were examined, which leads to differences in the legislation of each region concerning especially valuable lands. Discrepancies were found in the stages of classifying lands as suitable for viticulture in the area of conducting soil surveys of the considered potentially viticulture-suitable plots. Soil factors that are limiting for vineyard growth and whose content should be taken into account when classifying lands as suitable for viticulture were presented. These include: mechanical composition, thickness, pH, salt content, skeletal content, groundwater level, and mobile calcium content. The consequences of increased levels of limiting soil characteristics that negatively affect vineyard growth were identified. Types of subsidies in the viticulture and winemaking sector of the Krasnodar Territory and the materials required for obtaining subsidies were indicated. Subsidies for reimbursing part of the costs for young vineyards up to 4 years old inclusive have been considered, where a mandatory document is the result of a soil survey of a potentially vineyard-suitable plot. Practical recommendations have been proposed for amending regulatory and legal frameworks regarding the recognition of lands as suitable for vineyards based on the introduction of mandatory soil surveys.</jats:p>