The task of land consolidation projects is to bring scattered and degraded parcels to the appropriate parcel shape and size for agricultural management. Thus, direct access to each parcel road and ...irrigation system can be achieved. Thus, land operating costs are reduced in areas where land consolidation is applied. The present study aimed to determine the changes in input costs before and after land consolidation. As factors affecting input cost, land consolidation ratio, parcel shape index, size and number, transportation time to/from parcels and fuel consumption were considered. The material of the study consists of the land consolidation project area in the Kesik Village of Yeşilhisar District in Kayseri, Turkey. The total number of parcels of 30 randomly selected landowners decreased from 85 to 35 with land consolidation process. However, the average parcel size of selected landowners increased from 20.3 da to 41.5 da. After consolidation in the study area, the road length decreased by 343.5 km. With the decrease in the length of the road, there has been a decrease in the transportation fuel cost and time to the parcels. It was found that 151.14 L fuel and 163.234 USD cost were saved for the selected landowners and a 17 h and 18 min time gain.
•Effectiveness of land consolidation was tried to be determined.•To evaluate agricultural management costs before and after land consolidation.•Social and economic benefits of land consolidation.•Land consolidation is important for farm productivity.
This paper presents a new index for determining the shape of land parcels. Parcel shapes are usually represented descriptively (i.e. ribbon-shaped, rectangular, irregularly shaped), which is useless ...for automated distinguishing between parcel shapes or for determining and distinguishing between the patterns formed by parcels. Thus, we developed a Parcel Shape Index (IOP) to describe parcel shape characteristics, and then tested it in the test area of Gorenje pri Divači to analyse selected fields – as irregular blocks, enclosures, continuous strips, and furlongs. We found that IOP allows for a differentiation of parcels according to their shape as well as parcel patterns formed due to the individual types of dividing arable land.
Morphological analysis is a widely used method, applied in many scientific disciplines: ecology, biology, hydrology, geodesy and cartography, geology, medicine, and in urban geography. The term ...“morphology” has different meanings in different disciplines. In geodesy and cartography it means, generally speaking, studying the geometric properties of objects in space. In this research a digital cadastral map was submitted for analysis. This paper presents the morphological analysis of the structure created by the borders of cadastral parcels located in Strzelce Wielkie. In particular, the relationship between the perimeter and the area of the parcels bordering the Młynówka River flowing through the village was determined. The analysis indicates that a typical parcel situated on the Młynówka River has a significantly elongated shape similar to the shape of parcels located in urban areas. The calculated coefficient of parcel shape demonstrates that parcels bordering the river are seen as attractive and that the river bank is used in the most optimal way.
Shape irregularity, a sub-factor of parcel fragmentation is a problem that hinders sustainable agriculture and is solved using land consolidation projects. Determination of the parcel shape degree ...contributes significantly to spatial prioritization where there is also a high probability of achieving positive effects of consolidation projects. This study aims to determine the shape degree of the agricultural parcels both at singular and rural county scales in Tekirdag Province, Turkey in 2020 by combining the parcel shape index (PSI) with the minimum bounding geometry index (MBG) to improve parcel scores. Hot-spot zones of the highly irregular and near optimum parcels were also determined using Getis-Ord
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* statistic. The parcel degrees were classified into four categories, namely highly irregular, irregular, regular and near optimum. The obtained unweighted scores of the parameters exhibit deviations from the expected values. After weighting by pairwise comparison, the values approached ideal scores. Among 346 740 parcels, 53% were highly irregular and irregular and 47% were regular and near optimum shapes after weighting whereas these were 70% and 30%, respectively before weighting. The average parcel degree of 63 rural counties was regular while the average parcel degree of the remaining 264 rural counties was irregular. The combined use of PSI and MBG index improved the correctness of the parcel shape score. It could be suggested to use as a tool in land consolidation prioritization.
This study estimates shadow prices for land parcel characteristics in Finland, such as size and distance from the compound, by adding these characteristics to the conditional profit maximisation ...model. The profit functions are production line-specific, and the endogenous choice of production line is controlled for by a switching-type Probit-model. The results suggest that the small parcel size and their long distances from the compound significantly affect the farmer choice of allocating most land either to grass or to grain. The endogenous choice of line of production also has significant statistical implications in relation to profits, output supplies and input demand. Small parcel size was found to increase costs significantly by hindering farmers from adopting the most efficient production technologies and practices. The ongoing rapid structural development in Finnish agriculture implies that the constraints imposed by small parcels of land are becoming more and more costly. Grassland farming is predicted to loose its comparative advantage in the most fragmented agricultural areas, as farm sizes increase further. Operations to re-structure parcels of land amongst a group of neighbouring farms, although often costly and time consuming, will generate high returns.
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