Analysis of the Impact of Features on the Ranking of Urgency of Land Consolidation Works

Abstract

In EU member states the restructuring of rural areas based on consolidation is a common measure, thus Poland’s membership of the EU provided an opportunity for developing such zones through the financial support of the measures. The development of agriculture in Poland and its production capacity is much differentiated in terms of space. One of the reasons for such a situation is the process of long-term transformations of agricultural management in areas with different social and economic situation continuing for many years. The objective of land consolidation works is creating more favourable management conditions in agriculture and forestry by improving the territorial structure of farms, forests and forestland, reasonable configuration of land, aligning the limits of real properties with the irrigation and drainage system, roads and terrain. The studies were carried out in the rural community (gmina of Poświętne), situated in Opoczno poviat in Central Poland, which consisted of 17 villages covering a total area of 14081.0 ha. For the purposes of creating the ranking of urgency of the land consolidation and exchange works in the community (gmina) of Poświętne, 26 most significant features characterizing respective villages were selected. Those features were calculated based on data obtained from the register of land and buildings maintained by the Poviat Administration in Opoczno. The ranking was created using the zero unitarization method. This method allows standardizing diagnostic variables by testing the range of the characteristic. Standardized measures fall within the range <0;1>. The results can be interpreted as an average of optimum values achieved by each of the objects. Thus, the higher the synthetic measure, the higher position of the object in the ranking being created. This paper is a continuation of surveys during which the authors studied the impact of single features on the position of respective villages in the ranking. This paper aimed to analyze the impact of features on the ranking of urgency of land consolidation works by leaving out 2 or 3 features which described the analyzed villages and checking their impact on the results of the ranking of urgency of land consolidation and exchange works in respective villages within the analyzed community.