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The system of soil monitoring of agricultural land is a component of the state system of environmental monitoring and represents the system of observation, collection, processing, transfer, storage and analysis of information regarding variation of indices of the qualitative composition of soil, its fertility, elaboration of scientifically substantiated recommendations as regards decision-making for the prevention of negative processes and liquidation of the consequences thereof. The objects of soil monitoring shall be agricultural land (arable land, perennial plants, meadows, pastures, land under temporary conservation). Soil monitoring of agricultural land shall be carried out in conformity with the national and regional programs of soil monitoring. Soil monitoring of agricultural land shall be carried out for the purpose of timely exposure of the composition of soil, assessment thereof, elimination of the consequences of the negative processes and elaboration of scientifically substantiated systems of farming and agricultural technologies.