Development of land relations in the system of reform of national economy

Abstract

According to the Land Code of Ukraine, the land is the main national wealth, which is under special protection of the State. As a result of the land reforms in Ukraine, the private ownership of land is renewed, restrictions on granting the land plots to citizens are removed, but the rational highly–efficient land use and agriculture growth in the trajectory of sustainable development is not provided. One should also point to the lack of a comprehensive approach to determine the place of the land reform in the system of transformation of the national economy.

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the principles of the land reform and determine its dialectic link to other reforms of the national economy. To achieve this goal we applied system approach, general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. The information basis of the research is the legal regulating data of Ukraine and the reporting data of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre.

The main scientific result of the paper is substantiation of principles of land reform and determining of its dialectic link to other reforms of the national economy, namely, decentralization of management of the national economy; environmental reform, reform of agriculture and forestry.

The following principles and guidelines must underlie the land reform in accordance with a system approach: inventory and delimitation of agricultural lands, conducting their financial evaluation and regular re–evaluation, creation of a civilized land market and the right of rental of land plots for agricultural purposes on a competitive basis, stimulation of medium–term and long–term lease relations, decentralization and eco–friendliness of land relations, etc.

The scientific novelty of the work is defining the principles of land reform in Ukraine, which includes identification of its dialectic unity with other reforms in the national economy. 

Practical significance of the results of this work consists in identifying specific measures for reforming land relations with regard to causal relationships of economic reforms in Ukraine. 

The prospect of further research on the topic of the work is the development of proposals to improve the taxation of land relations.