How land transfer affects agricultural land use efficiency: Evidence from China’s agricultural sector

This paper is focused on the application of linear programming (LP) in combination with a geographic information system (GIS) in planning agricultural land-use strategies. One of the essential inputs for planning any agricultural land-use strategy is a knowledge of the natural resources. This is even more critical in small countries such as those in the Eastern Caribbean, where land-area limitations dictate a greater need for careful assessment and management of these resources. The first step of the proposed methodology is to obtain an assessment of the natural resources available to agriculture. The GIS is used to delineate land-use conflicts and provide reliable information on the natural-resource database. This is followed by combining the data on natural resources with other quantifiable information on available labour, market forecasts, technology, and cost information in order to estimate the economic potential of the agricultural sector. LP is used in this step. Finally, the GIS is applied again to map the crop and land-allocation patterns generated by the LP model. The results are concrete suggestions for resource allocation, farm-size mix, policy application, and implementation projects.

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Assessment of the efficiency of agricultural land use: a case study of France

RUDN Journal of Agronomy and Animal Industries ◽

10.22363/2312-797x-2021-16-4-400-408 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 400-408

Author(s):

Andrey N. Zharov ◽

Vadim G. Pliushchikov

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Literary Sources ◽

Analysis And Synthesis ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

Single Method ◽

Labor Resources ◽

Key Resources

Land is one of the key resources in agricultural production. The use of these resources is signifi antly different from the use of labor resources and financing. It is the land features that affect the assessment of their use efficiency. The analysis of literary sources has shown, there are a large number of approaches and methods to assess the effectiveness of land resources. This indicates a great interest of researchers and practitioners in the issue under study. Each of the researchers offers their own unique methodology for assessing the efficiency of land use. However, it is impossible to distinguish a single method due to various reasons. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the proposed methods are complementary. The main goal of this study was to assess the effectiveness of agricultural land use in France. In this regard we used following methods: analysis and synthesis, graphical method, method of comparisons. The analysis was carried out in three stages. The dynamics and structure of agricultural lands of the country, the harvested areas of the main groups of agricultural crops were analyzed, both cost and natural indicators were calculated. As a result, we can say that the studied indicators should be used in the express assessment of efficiency, they can also be used in the comparative assessment of the efficiency of agricultural land use. For a deeper assessment, in our opinion, it is necessary to use other methods of analysis.

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF BALANCED AGRICULTURAL LAND USE

State and regions. Series: Economics and Business ◽

10.32840/1814-1161/2021-4-18 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nadiia Davydenko ◽

Olena Zhovnirenko ◽

Olha Kliuchka

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Financial Support ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Tax Incentives ◽

The State ◽

Agricultural Land Use ◽

Minimal Impact ◽

Balanced Development ◽

Credit Mechanism

An important component of forming the basis for the balanced development of the domestic agricultural sector is the reproduction and protection of land resources. A significant part of the problems here are directly related to the insufficiency and inefficiency of financial support for agricultural land use. The purpose of the article is to reveal the financial and credit mechanism for ensuring balanced land use and to develop proposals for improving the financial support for the reproduction and protection of agricultural land through the introduction of tax incentives. The financial and credit mechanism for stimulating balanced agricultural land use can be defined as structurally complex and diversified; it has its own features to ensure its implementation and influence on the subjects of financial and credit relations in the direction of regulating their activities. It is established that financial relations in agricultural land use combine a very large chain of relationships between the state, enterprises, individuals and financial institutions in terms of financial support for the reproduction of agricultural land use. The financial and credit mechanism for stimulating balanced agricultural land use can be defined as structurally complex and branched; it has its own features to ensure its implementation and influence on the subjects of financial and credit relations in the direction of regulating their activities. It is proved that it is necessary to create such conditions of management that unbalanced use of land became economically unprofitable. The level of profitability and income of land users should become dependent on the degree of achievement of balanced agricultural land use, which is determined by a set of agrochemical indicators of the quality of land used for agricultural activities. In order to financially ensure the reproduction of balanced agricultural land use, the introduction of tax incentives is proposed. These include the formation of general favorable tax conditions for enterprises in the agricultural sector of the economy and the introduction of targeted tax benefits. It is established that the use of the above financial and credit levers and incentives for the development of balanced land use is the most accepted in today's challenges, because it has minimal impact on the expenditure side of the state budget.

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Land Use Efficiency on Example of the Transformation of Rural Properties

Proccedings of 10th International Conference "Environmental Engineering" ◽

10.3846/enviro.2017.197 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Elžbieta Jasinska

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Real Estate ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Local Development ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Local Planning ◽

The Real Estate ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

The Individual

Appropriate use of the economic potential of the property is a challenge not only for planners and local authorities, it is also important for the individual owners. The biggest changes will result from changes in local planning, mainly from the conversion of agricultural land for residential purposes. However, legislative changes were created to protect this type of land against uncontrolled rotation. The changes made in recent years, complicated, or even impossible so far used the process of buying and subsequent conversion of the property, to the needs of the real estate market premises or services. The article presents the ideas of Land Use Efficiency on the example of transformation of agricultural real estate in the property held for development. Example simulations are an empirical transformation or division of property to sell them for housing purposes. These examples illustrated in the example of land developing, for whom the lack of local development plans or plans are developed recently. For this purpose, a qualitative and quantitative approaches, including decision trees to determine the criteria for the formation of real estate prices. The author draws attention to the possibility of the development of non-urbanized areas and the potential costs and financial returns resulting therefrom.

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