The aim of the research was to identify the change of abandoned lands in Ūdrija cadastral area of Alytus district. This particular area was selected due to the diversity of land cover objects and because of a good agrarian condition. According to the data of 2010, the cadastral area of Ūdrija had 176 plots of abandoned land with the total area of 61.41 ha. After the verification 179 plots of a land were found, with the total area of 62.84 ha. It can be said that there is a minor increasing tendency of abandoned lands. During field verification as many as 41 mismatches were identified. The mismatch of the data was influenced by two main factors: a two year period between the information of the data set and field verification, as well as errors of the data set. To sum up, the information of verification has changed slightly. It happened because some mismatches were positive (identified new areas of abandoned land), while others were negative (plots of land which were in a set of data were denied during the verification).

Cadastral measurements of land parcels are conducted under the guidance of territory planning documents designed by resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania which in turn regulate the collection of real property cadastral data. However, not always boundaries of the measured land parcels correspond to the documents of territory planning and factual consumption of land. This problem becomes obvious when measuring agricultural land which is most frequently formed in land management schemes during the land reform. The aim of the research is to analyze the correspondence of land parcels after cadastral measurements to the documents of territory planning, identifying discrepancies between line lengths and areas of land parcels. Having investigated the correspondence of agricultural parcels to territory planning documents on the basis of the line lengths designed, it was found that higher line lengths occurred after conducting cadastral measurements. Having identified discrepancies between the areas of agricultural parcels and territory planning documents, one can make an assumption that significant differences could be noticed which manifest inadequacy existing in territory planning documents.

The latest land reform in Latvia has substantially altered the structure of use of farmland leading to a great number of very small and fragmented agricultural holdings, yet, in terms of occupied total area and UAA, medium size (10.0-50.0 ha) and slightly larger (more than 50.0 ha) land holdings dominate. In Latvia the number of agricultural holdings tends to decline. On the contrary, the average UAA per agricultural holding rose (by 66%), reaching 23.2 ha in 2010. One can conclude that positive structural changes take place in the agricultural industry – the number of small farms has declined and the number of and the area farmed by large marketoriented farms has risen, thus the difference between the sizes of land holdings that emerged during the land reform and the land areas farmed by agricultural holdings has increased.

The article deals with land consolidation solutions in three rural territories of Latvia, creating perspective monolithic land plots in order to prevent land fragmentation and improve the structure of land properties. Although all three project territories are located in geographically analogical circumstances, established structure of land properties, their infrastructure and location in relation to Riga and other cities and towns prescribes different objectives of land consolidation. The proposed land consolidation methodology could be powerful tool in hands of local municipalities in order to promote development of to rural area in general, agriculture and other sectors.