The article is devoted to the consideration of one of the important aspects of the economic development of municipalities, namely, the use of such a factor of production as land resources in the form of agricultural land. The methodological basis of the work was the concepts of municipal development and the theory of agrarian economics. The research uses general scientific methods such as comparison, synthesis, and spatial analysis. The purpose of the study is to develop a project to optimize the use of agricultural land in an agricultural–type municipality in the context of ensuring its economic development. The object of the study is the agricultural lands of the Omutinsky municipal district of the Tyumen region. The methodology for optimizing the use of agricultural land has been tested using the example of one of the large enterprises located in the Omutinsky municipal district in 2023, with the consistent implementation of the stages: 1) definition of the research object; 2) setting goals and objectives for optimizing agricultural land; 3) development of a plan for optimal use of agricultural land; 4) assessment of the available resource potential; 5) interpretation of the results. In the course of the study, the following results were obtained: a project was proposed to optimize agricultural land, allowing it to be used more efficiently, which will give impetus to the development of the sheep industry as one of the most important and promising branches of agriculture in the municipality under study, capable of influencing the results of the economic development of the municipality, which is manifested in the possibility of using unused agricultural land in economic development. in terms of turnover, in the creation of new jobs, in the formation of the potential for the implementation of a new product within the boundaries of the municipal and regional economy.