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Efficient Agricultural Land Management in Republic of Croatia: dream or reality?

Importance of agricultural land management, in a meaning of land policy in its narrower and broader sense, in Republic of Croatia has been neglected through years. In the narrow sense, positive and effective land policy is a base for competitiveness and profitability in agricultural production because of its mission of selling and leasing state-owned agricultural land, enhancing agricultural land management and preventing land contamination. In a broad sense, land policy measures are the part of the overall sustainable development of the state as an important part of environment protection policy, spatial planning and rural development. According to the law, agricultural land is an asset of the interest to the Republic of Croatia and enjoys the latter's particular protection. Therefore, it is of extreme importance to know the position, shape and usage of each cadastral parcels of agricultural land. Adoption and enforcement of land policy measures is impossible without knowledge about this facts and usage of information system as a basis for effective and transparent land policy. Agricultural land information system is a tool for the adoption of legal, administrative and economic decisions, planning and development.This paper presents the management of agricultural land in the Republic of Croatia in terms of surface and finance, inventory of state owned agricultural land data and application of state owned agricultural land information system.

Agricultural Land Agency; agricultural land management; cadastral parcel; information system; state owned agricultural land

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