Review article

https://doi.org/10.33128/ag.81.5.4

AREA AND AGRICULTURAL LAND EVALUATION IN CROATIA

Željko Vidaček ; Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Fully accurate data on the use of agricultural land in Croatia are missing due to disordered national database, that is, the incompatibility of the competent authorities in the implementation of an effective land policy. There is no uniform record of agricultural land, forms of use and management. The cadastre is not aligned with the land register, and the two are not aligned with the actual situation. Since the 1960s and 1970s, the following have been used in Croatia: Land evalation, Kovačević P. et al. 1987, P. Kovačević (1983), Ordinance on the criteria for determining particularly suitable arable (S1) land and suitable arable (S2) land, NN 23/19, and finally A Framework for Land evaluation, FAO 1976, as revised by Vidaček Ž., 1981. The implementation of the FAO Framework is recommended to be refined and we propose the establishment of a "Project Council for Agricultural Land evaluation in Croatia" at the Ministry of Agriculture, Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Soil Center, in collaboration with scientific institutions.

Keywords

soil; land; evaluation; suitability; agriculture; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

244799

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/244799

Publication date:

29.9.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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