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www.AgriMarket.Info, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, December 10, 2003
KYIV.....Agricultural lands in Ukraine are used inefficiently and the value
of
land resources remains to be low. This was stated by Natalya Ruban, Deputy
Head of the Chief Department for Control and Revisions (KRU, the chief
authority for financial control in Ukraine) at a press-conference December
9.
In saying so Ms. Ruban was referring to the outcomes of checks, made by her
Department, at the state enterprises, reporting the Department of Water
Resources and the Committee for Land Resources of Ukraine, in 2000-2002.
Ms. Ruban said almost half of the lands for agricultural use had not been
transferred into private property or private use up to the moment. Wile 98
percent of citizen, entitled for land property rights, have become owners of
the land plots, only 43 percent of them have legally confirmed their right
by the state land title certificates.
Ms. Ruban said a considerable part of the lands was not put under
registration and was being used without any legal documents issued,
confirming the title being granted to their owners or users.
She said results of the inspections had shown that no rational usage and
protection of lands was being provided, which caused degradation of their
fertility. Thus, land reclamation works, which were planned on 165,400
hectares, have been actually made on just 1,600 hectares; out of 1 million
hectares of over-moisturised and salted lands, the improvement works have
been done on just 25,000 hectares.
According to KRU, the general area of degraded and low-fertile lands at the
moment of the inspections constituted almost 25 million hectares, which
brings annual losses of more than 30 billion hryvnias (5.33 hryvnias = $1).
Ms. Ruban expressed concern by the fact that most of the rural inhabitants
are discontent with the results of the land reform. According to her data,
out of 10,000 people that have been questioned 90 percent reported that
their financial state had not improved after being granted the land share.
The level of knowledge of the land owners about their rights remains to be
extremely low, Ms. Ruban said.
EDITOR'S NOTE: It is quite obvious and has been for a long time that
Ukraine's agricultural land is being used very inefficiently. Otherwise you
would not have thousands of very poor villages sitting on top of some of
the best farmland in the world. The Czar sucked far too much wealth out
of rural Ukraine and crushed its wealth creation capacity, the Soviet system
sucked far too much wealth of out rural Ukraine and crushed its wealth
creation capacity and the present economic and political system sucks far
too much wealth out of rural Ukraine and continues to crush its true wealth
creation capacity.
Rural Ukraine has been grossly handicapped and severely crippled by
extremely poor and disastrous government programs and policies for over
two hundred or more years. When will rural Ukraine be given the real
opportunity to produce the amazing amount of wealth it is capable of
producing for the Ukrainian people? Why not now? It is not time?
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