Nationwide evaluation of agricultural lands in Ukraine

Abstract

In Ukraine standard evaluation of land has been carried out already for 20 years. For this fairly long period of time certain approaches to the conduct of these works and the relevant legislative and regulatory base have been formed. In 2018, the Government planned to carry out regulatory assessment of agricultural lands. This process will be conducted simultaneously on all the territory of Ukraine. Normative pecuniary valuation of land belongs to important economic regulators of land relations in Ukraine. It is determined according to the standard of capitalized rent income on land for agricultural purposes and indicators of soils bonitet by drafting scales evaluation of agro-industrial soil groups of natural and agricultural areas. Index of standard capitalized rent income reflects profitability of a business. Unfortunately, to calculate the standard evaluation of land we use bonitet data, which were identified during the Soviet era. Natural
agricultural land zoning is the basis for standard evaluation of agricultural lands and the development of the organization’s documents regarding the use and protection of lands. In our opinion, nationwide standard evaluation holding of agricultural lands depends on the existing full, objective and sufficient information about them. An important source of obtaining such information is a conduct of the inventory. Technical documentation for all assessment of lands includes a description of the agricultural zoning nature, agroclimatic conditions, basic characteristics of the soil cover, description of the used materials of soil surveys of the past years and the performed work. The implementation of this process in Ukraine will create favorable conditions for effective development of land valuation indicators that will facilitate the influx of funds to the budget, rational and effective land use, solving socio-economic problems of the rural population.