Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(4):179-183 | DOI: 10.17221/5376-AGRICECON
Development of structure and exploitation of agriculture land fund in Latvia
- Ministry of Agriculure, Riga, Republic of Latvia
Agriculture is a sector in Latvia which plays an important role in the country's economy and the same time performs a significant social, environmental and ethno-cultural function. Latvia has favourable conditions for the development of organic agriculture. The aim of land reform is to reorganise legal, social and economic relationships of land property and land use to facilitate the development of infrastructure, land protection and rational land use according to the interests of society. In Latvia, the land reform is practically carried out in three directions - restitution of real estate rights, privatisation of real property and compensation for previous real estate. At the moment, the main and urgent goal concerns strengthening of the results of land reform. It means that all the information on real estates (land and buildings), uses and area of lease obtained during the previous course of land reform must be reflected into the real property cadastre.
Keywords: land property, land reform, land use, agricultural land, ownership structure, land privatisation process
Published: April 30, 2003 Show citation
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