TITLE:
Available Agricultural Area by Utilization Categories and Ownership Structure of Holdings in the Republic of Serbia
AUTHORS:
Nada Trivić
KEYWORDS:
Utilized/Unutilized Agricultural Area, Agricultural Holdings, Ownership Structure of Agricultural Holdings
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Resources,
Vol.11 No.8,
August
31,
2020
ABSTRACT: The subject of research in this paper is the analysis and presentation of
data on agricultural holdings, the structure of available and utilized area.
The data and calculated indicators represent a comprehensive overview of the
structural characteristics of national agriculture, but they are also an
internationally comparable database, based on key features of agriculture. The
main goal of this paper is to determine and explain more comprehensively and in
detail by using appropriate methods, and based on available data, the condition
of utilized agricultural area (hereinafter: UAA) and its quantitative and qualitative characteristics by utilization categories and manner of its use; types
of agricultural holdings and statistical regions and lower statistical units of
data grouping.Implementation of such a defined basic
research goal indicates necessity of more detailed and continuous study of the
causes that led to the
reduction of available agricultural area and especially its better and more
important production categories of utilization and measures and activities to
be taken to eliminate or reduce the causes of inadequate management of
agricultural area in the coming period. The importance of this research
arises from the fact that the results on utilized agricultural area can
be used to adopt appropriate measures and
undertake certain activities in land and overall agricultural and rural
policy related to sustainable utilization, arrangement and protection of
agricultural land and more balanced integrated development of rural areas, as
well as to find better solutions in the field of utilization, ownership sector
and conditions of agricultural area management.