A Proposed Land Exchange Algorithm for Eliminating the External Plot Patchwork

Żanna Stręk, Przemysław Leń, Justyna Wójcik-Leń, Paweł Postek, Monika Mika and Leszek Dawid
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Żanna Stręk: Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, The Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Life Science in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Przemysław Leń: Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, The Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Life Science in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Justyna Wójcik-Leń: Department of Environment and Agriculture, District Authority Office in Brzozów, 36-200 Brzozów, Poland
Paweł Postek: Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, The Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Life Science in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Monika Mika: Department of Land Surveying, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
Leszek Dawid: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Geodetic Sciences, Technical University of Koszalin, Śniadeckich 2, 75-453 Koszalin, Poland

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: In many countries of the world, rural areas are characterized by a defective spatial structure of agricultural land. The most frequent defects are large fragmentation and distribution of farmland. The fragmentation of land has been an issue widely described by many authors throughout the world. The problem of the distribution of land owned by individual farmers is slightly different, since due to the complexity of the problem this issue was not widely explored in Poland (plot patchwork) or in other countries of Europe and the world. Land fragmentation and distribution of plots in rural areas has a negative effect on the profitability and efficiency of agricultural production. Land consolidation and exchange is an operation facilitating spatial structure improvement. The authors attempted to develop a universal land exchange algorithm for eliminating the external plot patchwork. As it turns out, so far no land exchange algorithm has been developed. Specific analyses were carried out in Puchaczów commune, county of Łęczna, Lublin voivodeship in the eastern part of Poland, covering an area of 6907.80 ha, split into 15,211 plots. The chequerboard arrays method was used. The publication presents the algorithm and its practical application using a test sample. A result of the studies is a proposal concerning the exchange of land between landowners in the villages of the commune of Puchaczów. Using the algorithm, the area of individual lands in the commune, after the exchange, will increase by 172.09 ha, which is 2.5% for the area of individual lands, and 1.9% for the commune.

Keywords: spatial analysis; land fragmentation; land consolidation; plot patchwork; rural areas; GIS; algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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