Review article

Land Consolidation and Rural Development

Mira Ivković ; Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Đuro Barković orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-253X ; Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Baćani ; State Geodetic Administration, Valpovo, Croatia

Abstract

Rural and agricultural production development is an inevitable process in preserving rural area that everyone in the Republic of Croatia is pleading for. The existing situation in the rural area is not attractive for your people and they mostly abandon these areas. There are old-people households prevailing in the Republic of Croatia that surely cannot improve agricultural production, and the return of those who have abandoned it is hardly to expect. It is therefore inevitable to provide for your people who still want to be active in agriculture further on the conditions that would make it possible for them to live securely and adequately. Certain state bodies, i.e. local authorities are obliged to organise and realise concrete projects for the advance of various types of agricultural production in each region, county and municipality. In our state there are small family estates prevailing in rural regions that cannot secure decent income for their owners, i.e. the life standard that your people expect, or better to say, deserve. Apart from that, droughts and floods appear more and more frequently, and the floods also appear very often in the areas along numerous river courses, which additionally threatens modest incomes in rural families. The measure that would reduce or completely eliminate these problems is land consolidation. Land consolidations have been carried out intensively at the territory of the Republic of Croatia in the period after the 2. Word War and until Croatia became independent in 1991. The reasons for land consolidation not being carried out for such a long time are not known and one of them that can be heard is the lack of legal regulations. The fact is, however, that the old law could easily be adjust to new social and political circumstances, and for the preparation of the new one it would also not be needed the next ten years. In such circumstances our rural areas become more and more neglected and poor, and the agricultural production is falling behind the one in the countries of the European Union.

Keywords

land consolidation; rural development; Land Consolidation Act

Hrčak ID:

64686

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/64686

Publication date:

15.12.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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