Experience of Lithuanian land consolidation projekts

Land consolidation is a complex territory rearrangement taken into account local peculiarities, rural community and land owners economical and environmental recommendations. In Lithuania the area for available land consolidation projects is more than 2500 thousands ha of private agricultural land, which includes more than 300 thousands owners. Four pilot land consolidation projects were accomplished during 2000 - 2003, These projects estimated situation in Lithuania, showed specific features of country and required legal base for land consolidation. The article analyses results of the pilot projects. Only 28% of land owners took participation in the pilot land consolidation projects. Means of rural development were implemented partly only in Pabaiskas and Puskelniai projects, although owners asked for these means in all projects. One of the main reasons for this is separate financing for land consolidation projects and rural development measuresVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij