The paper presents theoretical underpinning of land rent as an economic pathology, as well as of the fact that rent seeking acts as a brake on social reproduction, since, firstly, land rental payment in any form raises the costs of the producer of agricultural products and consequently reduces their competitiveness in agri-food markets; secondly, for reasons of payments economy agricultural producers tend to increase land use intensity of either leased or purchased land, and, thus, turning rent into a factor of technologically excessive intensification; thirdly, land income in some cases becomes a brake on the intensification of agricultural production; fourthly, land rental payment limits the financial capabilities of many agricultural producers, especially small ones, and, as a result, limits the demand in land rental market; fifthly, rental relations significantly complicate agricultural crises bailout of the economy; sixthly, rental relations can repress rational formation of the fund of cultivated land due to the existence of lands of relatively better quality; seventhly, rent appropriated by the private land owner is only partially and is not always is used for production purposes.
zemel'naya renta, specifika rentnyh otnosheniy, arenda zemel'nyh doley, ekonomicheskaya patologiya, sposoby iz'yatiya renty