Information System for Management of State-owned Agricultural Land
Short description: As part of efforts to improve transparency, accountability and efficiency in the management of state‐owned agricultural land, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management has initiated the development of an information system which will enable digital registration and management of the available state‐owned agricultural land fund. The system is conceived as an initial version of a national GIS-based land registry, integrating data from the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, the Ministry, local governments and other relevant institutions. Its implementation will lay the foundations for long-term digital land-resource management and will enable the use of analytics to support evidence-based agricultural policy and planning.
Within this activity there is development and installation of custom software tailored to the Ministry’s needs, procurement and installation of hardware, and digitisation of existing lease contracts and geodetic elaborates. The system will cover all business processes related to the management of agricultural land and pastures, which are to become part of a newly established Agency for Management of Agricultural Land. Through creation of this tool for systematic management of state land, it will be possible to achieve better allocation and control of land use via access to geo-spatial information. Enhanced efficiency and transparency in land-resource management, as well as automation and uniformity of processes in both resource-use planning and revenue realisation from land use are expected outcomes.