A Critical Analysis of the Methods of Providing of the Agricultural Land Consolidation in Ukraine
The article is providing a critical analysis of the methods of providing of agricultural land consolidation, which is often mentioned in Ukrainian scientific literature, such as: land parcel exchange, amalgamation of land parcels, land lease, buying-selling of the land parcels, and cooperation. Each of these methods is described in detail. The analysis has showed that the land parcel exchange, amalgamation of land parcels, buying-selling of the land parcels can not serve as the methods of land consolidation, since these measures in its essence do not perform the objectives and functions of the land consolidation, but partly solve the problem of the agricultural land fragmentation. It is established that the land lease can not be regarded as a method of the agricultural land consolidation because lease does not include the transfer of rights concerning land disposal. The agricultural co-operation, as a voluntary amalgamation of property, can not be considered as the method of land consolidation for the reason that does not imply a change in the structure of ownership and the number of the land parcels. We conclude that there is the need to develop a Ukrainian model of agricultural land consolidation.