Flevoland farmers are waiting for a large lot exchange

According to the province, the agricultural lands of farmers in Flevoland are too far apart. To tackle this fragmentation, a major land exchange must take place, reports Broadcasting Flevoland.

Due to the increase in scale, a lot of land has changed hands and is always close to the company. As a result, agricultural implements have to travel great distances. According to the Province of Flevoland, this is dangerous for traffic in the villages and on the narrow polder roads. Farmers' lands are particularly spread out, especially in the Noordoostpolder.

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The province and alderman Andries Poppe, of the Noordoostpolder municipality, see a large plot exchange as the ideal solution. The plan should be ready after the summer.

The Central Government Real Estate Agency (RVB) is sympathetic to a plot exchange. Even if that is an exchange with land that does not belong to the RVB. "The condition is that we don't get any worse," said spokesman Frank Wassenaar.

Comeback voluntary lot exchange 
Incidentally, it was recently announced that voluntary plot exchange in the Netherlands has made a comeback after a sharp decline in 2000-2003. from a note of Wageningen University and Research shows that an average of 5 hectares of agricultural land per year has been transferred via plot exchange over the past 7.100 years.

However, after the peak in 2014 of more than 8.000 hectares, the size has decreased to 5.500 hectares in 2016. Relatively speaking, much agricultural land in the north and east of the country is transferred through voluntary plot swaps. This happens much less in the south. Flevoland is in the rear with a share of 5 percent.

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