GEOSPATIAL PARTICULARITIES OF FARMING FORMATION IN UKRAINE

Myroslav ZAYACHYK

ABSTRACT: Social-geographic essence of farming mode is disclosed. Four historic periods of peasant farming mode are outlined. Geospatial particularities of farming development in Ukrainian present-day period are considered. Present-day farming formation stages are accentuated upon and characterized. Farming economies number and their provision with agricultural lands in Ukraine are analyzed on the 1990-2010 farming development examples. First 82 farming economies in independent Ukraine registered in the early 1991 used 2 thousand ha of agricultural lands. As from then, farming movement showed considerable progress with 42 thousand farms using 4,3 million ha in 2012.

Keywords: agriculture, farming formation, farming development dynamics, growth rates, increment rates.

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