Is Soil Bonitet an Adequate Indicator for Agricultural Land Appraisal in Ukraine?

Leonid Shumilo, Mykola Lavreniuk, Sergii Skakun and Nataliia Kussul
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Leonid Shumilo: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Mykola Lavreniuk: Department of Space Information Technologies and Systems, Space Research Institute NAS Ukraine & SSA Ukraine, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine
Sergii Skakun: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Nataliia Kussul: Department of Mathematical Modelling and Data Analysis, National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-12

Abstract: Agriculture land appraisal analysis is an important component of the land market. This task is especially essential for Ukraine, which plans to lift the moratorium on land transactions and legalize farmland sales in 2021. Most post-Soviet countries adopted the notion of a soil bonitet—a quantitative score representing natural soil fertility. This score is also proposed in Ukraine to perform agricultural land appraisals. However, this is a static parameter and does not account for the dynamics of actual crop production on the agricultural lands. Moreover, the bonitet score is not crop-specific. Therefore, in this study, we use maps of bonitet based on the soil map and natural-agricultural districts of Ukraine and crop yields at the village scale to explore the relationships between bonitet values and actual crop production in Ukraine. We found that land appraisal is not correlated with the actual soil bonitet.

Keywords: bonitet; agricultural land appraisal; soil quality; yield assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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