Analysis of the expectations and the results of the participants of the land consolidation project of Taujėnai and Viškoniai cadastral areas

Abstract

The Master’s thesis was prepared on the basis of the existing material of the implemented project, using scientific literature, and valid legislation for the preparation of the land consolidation. The research was carried out by applying empirical and theoretical research methods: comparative analysis, mathematical statistical analysis and questionnaire survey method (by e-mail and telephone interview according to the questionnaire). Most of the persons involved in the project wanted to restructure the boundaries of the land plots, to combine their land parcels, thus reducing the distances between the land parcels owned by land ownership, and to increase the land holdings, thus improving their brevity. Also, high expectations were raised to arrange and improve the access roads to the land plots and to handle inoperative land reclamation. The final number of land plots of the implemented project decreased by 67 units (10.58%), and the total area, by contrast, increased by 17.68 ha (1.17%)... According to the approved land consolidation strategy, it is planned to continuously analyze the prepared projects and improve land consolidation procedures [1]. “It was not expected such a result which was obtained after the implementation of the land consolidation project”, more and more often said the land consolidation project participants. What did the persons who participated in the land consolidation project want to say by this statement? What was wrong that after the implementation of the land consolidation project, the expectations raised by the participants in the beginning of the project differed from the obtained results after the implementation of the project? The project of land consolidation of Taujėnai and Viškoniai cadastral areas in Ukmergės municipality implemented within the framework of the 2007-2013 Rural Development Program was selected as the subject of the research. The aim of this research was to distinguish the expectations and the reasons for failure to implement them in the land consolidation project distinguishing the expectations raised by the participants in the beginning of the project and the obtained results after the implementation of the project.