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As a result of the Land Reform, property forming and land market, farm areas were often built up from a number of land plots (up to 20), sometimes with unfavourable order. With the rural development and stabilization of farm production, the role and tasks of rational territory organization are expected to increase significantly in the area. It can be forecasted that, as a result of land rent and further purchase and sell, and other transactions, many new farmland properties are expected to appear that will not correspond to the requirements of rational territorial organization. It indicates that the importance of land consolidation, i.e., measures for the elimination of land fragmentation and other deficiencies of territorial arrangement, is going to increase more and more. The concept of land consolidation is new in Latvia. Its main tasks are to eliminate land fragmentation and to facilitate farms of optimal size. One of the most important preconditions of land consolidation is the forming of optimal size farmland plots in property and use, and land fragmentation, which has a major impact on both the operating conditions and other rural development processes. Land fragmentation disturbs not only land management, but it also increases transport costs. Having considered the foreign experience, we can draw a conclusion that land consolidation is very important for the development of agriculture. It can be used as a high-performance tool for rural development. Land consolidation creates preconditions for competitive agricultural production, enabling to manage larger and better located lands with less separated plots.
