In Russia that has probably happened 50 years ago or so. In pre-railway times, people had to grow grains everywhere where they lived, including Russian north s

In Russia that has probably happened 50 years ago or so. In pre-railway times, people had to grow grains everywhere where they lived, including Russian north such as Archangel, and Siberia. Today, the intensified farming mostly happens in a tiny south-western tip of a country. The downside here is that there's no longer an economical reason for rural life style in most of the country. But, forests and grasslands reclaim former fields all right.