FEATURES OF LAND USE MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Analysis of land management problems is an urgent need of today, as their solution allows to establish a balance between availability and demand for land resources, quality and cost-effectiveness. That is why the study of the peculiarities of land use management is an extremely important issue. The article considers the features of land use management, their characteristics are investigated. It is noted that taking into account these features will make it possible to adapt the management mechanism of balanced land use to the conditions of agricultural production. Approaches to economic  assessment of land use are analyzed.Different approaches to economic evaluation of land use have been repeatedly considered in the economic literature. There were attempts to find a generalized indicator (index), which would make it possible to simultaneously determine the economic efficiency of land use and the level of economic development as a whole. However, most often these indicators were quite conditional, giving almost no idea of the degree of land use, material and labor resources. Therefore, a system of individual  indicators is often used to comprehensively assess land use. The most common is a system of factorial and performance indicators. Factorial indicators that reflect changes in the structure of land and capital investment, allow to characterize the degree of rationality and intensity of land use, as well as to develop a set of measures to increase agricultural production. For a more complete and comprehensive assessment of the efficiency of land use, it is also advisable to use performance indicators.The analysis of materials and special literature gives grounds to conclude that the reason for the instability of the choice of criteria for land use efficiency is the shift of factorial and performance indicators. It should be noted that factorial indicators affect performance, and vice versa. In addition, indicators of rationality and efficiency of land use are not identical, but the former significantly affect the efficiency of land use. Using the above indicators in the calculations will make it possible to investigate the level of efficiency of land use, they can be used to compare the economic activities of all categories of farms.