Assessment of rural development land use projects for farmstead site selection (Elektrėnai municipality as example)

Valciukiene, J., Aleksandras Stulginskis Univ., Akademija, Kauno reg.; Sletkeviciute, G., Aleksandras Stulginskis Univ., Akademija, Kauno reg.

Assessment of rural development land use projects for farmstead site selection (Elektrėnai municipality as example)

2017

Valciukiene, J., Aleksandras Stulginskis Univ., Akademija, Kauno reg. (Lithuania) | Sletkeviciute, G., Aleksandras Stulginskis Univ., Akademija, Kauno reg. (Lithuania)

The purpose of this article is to analyse the rural development land use projects for farmstead site selection prepared in the municipality of Elektrėnai during the period between the years of 2012 and 2016, and to determine their potential impact on the growth of built-up areas and the rational use of land. According to the survey data, it can be stated that drafting rates of rural development land use projects for farmstead site selection tend to grow especially in those municipalities that are close to Vilnius and which have a good geographical position as well as a special landscape and national cultural heritage values (Vilnius district, Trakai district and Elektrėnai district municipalities). Having carried out the agricultural land change analysis, it is noted that during the analysis period (2012 - 2016) in Elektrėnai municipality, similarly to the whole Vilnius county, land utilities structure is dominated by agricultural land, mostly arable land, but the significant trend of agricultural land reduction at the expense of the growth of built-up areas was noticed. During the analysed period the built-up areas in the municipality of Elektrėnai increased even by 6 times, and the area of agricultural land declined on average, by almost 2 percent every year. A detailed analysis of specific projects and information gathered during qualitative research suggest that the prepared rural development land use projects for farmstead site selection are not prepared for the improvement of the actual farming activity conditions in constructing farm and other buildings.

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AGROVOC Keywords

assessment buildings construcciones data analysis data collection desarrollo rural exploitation agricole explotaciones agrarias farmland farms land use latvia letonia lettonie lithuania lituania lituanie projects rural development terre agricole utilisation des terres

Bibliographic information

Published in

Baltic surveying (Latvia, Lithuania) | International scientific journal

Volume 6 Issue 1

Pagination

p. 16-25

Other Subjects

Analyse de donnees; Tierras agricolas; Collecte de donnees; Developpement rural; Utilizacion de la tierra; Batiment; Coleccion de datos; Analisis de datos

Language

English

Note

Summary (En)

3 tables, 4 fig., 10 ref.

Type

Web Site; As

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