Agricultural Land In Ukraine Research Articles

IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF USING AGRICULTURAL LAND

Urgency of the research. Full and effective use of the potential of land resources as one of the competitive advantages of agricultural production. Target setting. Effective and rational use of land resources is of great importance for the national economy of Ukraine. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Specifics of the effective use of agricultural lands were studied by such scholars as Balayev A. D., Balyuk S. A., Hrekov V. A., Krymska L. O., Koval M. V., Medvedev V. V., Melnychuk L. S., Tarariko O. H. and others. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Scientists do not adequately cover the issue of structuring the problems of increasing the efficiency of agricultural land use. The research objective. The article is intended to identify and structure the main issues, the effectiveness of the use of agricultural land and determine the ways of their solution. The statement of basic materials. The article considers and structures the issues of efficient use of agricultural land in Ukraine. The influence of ecological and economic factors on the efficiency of land resources use negatively affecting the quality and fertility of the land is analysed. Conclusions. Effective use of land resources provides for the creation of a material base for ensuring the conservation, reproduction and further increase of the level of economic return of land.

Hedonic price modeling of agricultural land valuation in Ukraine

The article applies hedonic method to the pricing of agricultural land in Ukraine as an alternative to the existing practice of regulatory monetary valuation. Using data from the sale ads the study establishes the main driving factors of agricultural land prices.

Recultivation of abandoned agricultural lands in Ukraine: Patterns and drivers

Abstract The recent rise in agricultural commodity prices and the expectation that high price will persist have triggered a wave of farmland expansion in regions where land resources are still available. One such region is the former Soviet Union, where the collapse of socialism caused massive agricultural abandonment and where some of these lands are now being brought back into production. Yet, the extent and spatial patterns of recultivation, and what determines these patterns, remains unclear. We examined the extent of recultivation of abandoned agricultural land in Ukraine since 2007 using a new, satellite-based recultivation map and assessed the effect of biophysical and socioeconomic determinants on recultivation patterns using boosted regression trees. We found key predictors of recultivation to be related to the suitability of land for agriculture (i.e., soil quality, temperature). Accessibility to major cities was also important, with most recultivation happening closer to settlements, but this influence varied across Ukraine. Variables related to agricultural management (fertilizer input, mechanization) and demography were negligible in explaining recultivation in our analyses. These factors suggest that recultivation patterns were primarily driven by factors related to land productivity, with recultivation focusing on the most promising areas. Given the remaining large amount of unused agricultural land in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and considering that much abandonment occurred in areas only marginally suited to agriculture, our findings provide important insights into where recultivation can be expected to happen and thus for assessing the potential socioeconomic and environmental impacts of recultivation.

Restructuring of traditional farms and new land relations in Ukraine

AbstractThis paper reports the results of a 1993/1994 survey of 2500 farm managers, farm employees, and private farmers in Ukraine, highlighting changes at the farm level in response to programs of land reform and farm restructuring. As of early 1994, Ukrainian reform had moved to the first stage, which involves privatization of much of the agricultural land and creation of shareholding farms. Over 60% of agricultural land in Ukraine has been transferred from state to collective ownership; among the collective and state farms surveyed, nearly 75% have reorganized and most of them have allocated land and asset shares to members. The number of independent private farmers in Ukraine exceeds 30 000, but with an average farm size of 20 ha they cultivate less than 2% of farmland. Reform at the farm level in Ukraine has thus begun, but at present is at a very early stage.

Restructuring of traditional farms and new land relations in Ukraine

Abstract This paper reports the results of a 1993/1994 survey of 2500 farm managers, farm employees, and private farmers in Ukraine, highlighting changes at the farm level in response to programs of land reform and farm restructuring. As of early 1994, Ukrainian reform had moved to the first stage, which involves privatization of much of the agricultural land and creation of shareholding farms. Over 60% of agricultural land in Ukraine has been transferred from state to collective ownership; among the collective and state farms surveyed, nearly 75% have reorganized and most of them have allocated land and asset shares to members. The number of independent private farmers in Ukraine exceeds 30 000, but with an average farm size of 20 ha they cultivate less than 2% of farmland. Reform at the farm level in Ukraine has thus begun, but at present is at a very early stage.