Land consolidation in Hungary : dream or reality
Kovacs, Eniko and Andras Ossko
After the change of the political and economic system in Hungary at the beginning of 90s, Hungary introduced a wide range of agricultural land privatisation using compensation procedure. As a result of these activities over 5.1 million ha. of agricultural land and forest have been privatised forming about 2.6 million new parcels, allocated for an estimated 1.8 million new owners. All the new parcels and owners have been registered in the land registry and on the cadastral maps and new boundaries have been set up on the field. Apart from the fact that the land privatisation have been implemented successfully, the result of compensation procedures created some negative impact on the agriculture, bad farm structure, fregmentation of land. To solve above problems comprehensive land consolidation procedure is needed requires definite political wish, legal and institutional framework, sufficient financial sources and finally consensus with farmer society. In order to to start the comprehensive land consolidation activities a German- Hungarian pilot project was implemented between 1993-2000 and a new pilot was started in 2002 under Dutch- Hungarian co-operation. After analysing experiences it was found that carrying out land consolidation needs a very intensive preparatory phase, a very close co-operation between authorities and the rural society.
Event: Symposium on Modern Land Consolidation
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