Main trends in the use of agricultural land in Ukraine

Abstract

Today, land lease is a special kind of land use right and one of the most common legal forms of land use in Ukraine. It can be also considered as the basis for effective development of agriculture, solving social problems of rural development, adaptation of agricultural producers to market economy conditions. In recent years, Ukraine has taken positive steps in deregulating leasehold land relations, which contributes to the development of the land market. The number of essential terms of the agreement has been reduced from eleven to three, and mandatory annexes to the lease agreement have been abolished. Emphasis is placed on the features of such essential conditions of the land lease agreement as the object of lease, the term of the lease agreement, rent. The general features of the land lease agreement have been clarified, specific features of the agricultural land lease agreement have been singled out.

Based on the analysis of the peculiarities of the development of the market of agricultural land use rights in Ukraine and alternative ways of acquiring this right, it is concluded that the existence of different legal models of acquiring agricultural land use rights will allow agribusiness entities to choose the most acceptable way of land consolidation, as well as contribute to the de-shadowing of the market of agricultural land use rights.