Economic sciences/12. Agricultural economics

Doctor of economic sciences Elena Kotikova

Mykolaiv state agrarian university

Identify priority areas of land policy to ensure sustainable development of agricultural land use

Assessment of positive effects and negative consequences of land reform shows that in general conducted a significant amount of work on the transformation of land ownership, transfer most of the land, especially agricultural land, the property of citizens. Moment, the ultimate goal of land reform has not yet been achieved, in particular, first, do not provide high performance, environmentally safe use of land resources, and secondly, land relations do not meet the requirements of the global economy – the development of sustainable land use.

Therefore, after the most difficult phase of land reform, an important task in this area is to regulate and improve the land and with regard to the transformation of social relations in general, the economic situation in the country, national and global trends in land and natural resources. It should take into account the prospects of Ukraine's entry into the global market space and the need to ensure competitiveness of domestic agricultural production, requiring rationalization of land use both in terms of its economic efficiency, and ensure the protection of all land resources and organizing environmentally sound use.

Therefore, it is important to determine priority areas of land policy to ensure environmental, economic and social balance – the main contemporary pidtsiley public land policy of Ukraine in the transition to a model of sustainable agricultural land use.

The strategic task of modern government's land policy is to move to a model of sustainable land use development that includes environmental, economic and social equilibrium of agricultural land use.

The priorities of the land policy to ensure the ecological balance of agricultural land use should be considered:

1) strengthening of control functions and state incentives for rational use and protection of agricultural lands;

2) if the environmental constraints on land use;

3) the establishment of necessary base standards, norms and standards for land use;

4) implementing an automated system of land tax payers and the rental of land;

5) provide landowners and land users about the suitability of land and quality;

6) complete inventory of agricultural lands;

7) support from the government stakeholders engaged in the production of environmentally friendly products, use energy-saving and wasteless production technology;

The priorities of the land policy to ensure social balance of agricultural land use should be considered:

1) create mechanisms for effective implementation of social ownership of agricultural land;

2) improving methods and permanent updating of standardized currency valuation;

3) developing a mechanism for compensation of land owners missed revenue while withdrawing them from the intensive cultivation;

4) protection of peasant landlords;

5) differentiation of the ground rent;

6) encouraging rural communities to participate in decision making to resolve land issues and disputes;

7) the development of all forms of farming in order to maximize involvement of rural residents to work.

The priorities of the land policy to ensure economic balance of agricultural land use should be considered:

1) improvement of public land management;

2) the establishment of necessary legal and regulatory framework for land use and functioning land market;

3) the conduct of rural land use in accordance with the concept of sustainable development;

4) improve the order and system of land cadastre and land monitoring;

5) create legal and economic mechanisms for effective implementation of property rights on agricultural land;

6) a competitive environment among potential tenants.

Need to separately highlight three areas of land policy, implementation of which will promote an economic and ecological and social balance of agricultural land use.

1. State assistance in land management, concentration and consolidation (combining) of land for agricultural purposes in the hands of efficient agricultural managers, as well – providing a controlled, transparent market movement of land, which will create better conditions for the formation of competitive farms, crop rotations, measures to protect and improve soil quality, reducing social tensions.

2. Establishment of regional concentration limits of land to prevent monopolization of land and formation of extra-large farms.

3. Adoption of State programs for the sustainable development of land use and its consistent implementation on the basis of the necessary funds from the state and local budgets according to the article of the Law of Ukraine "On Land".