LAND USE MANAGEMENT AND THEIR IMPACTS ON EFFICIENCY OF AGRICULTURAL LAND USE IN SON TAY TOWN, HA NOI CITY

This study aims to find out the nature of land use management practices and their impacts on the efficiency of agricultural land use in Son Tay town. Proportional random sampling was used to select 160 households from 4 communes, which represented two areas. Data were gathered through individual face-to-face and in-depth interviews, and from secondary sources. Data were analyzed using the 5-points Likert scale to assess the level of land use management. Using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and LSD’s post-hoc multiple comparison to test the differences between some indicators among land users and between the 2 regions. The efficiency of agricultural land use was measured in terms of economic and social aspects. They were value added (VA) per hectare, laborers per hectare, and VA per laborer. The impact of land use management on the efficiency of agricultural land use was analyzed by using the Spearman rank correlation coefficient in SPSS17.0 with a significance level of 0.05.

The results of the research showed that the local people realize that there have been remarkable changes in the land use management recently. There were moderately positive impacts of land use management in terms of organizing the implementation of legal establishment documents; land use planning, management of land use planning and plans for land use; allocation and management of the implementation of land use rights; and land valuation on the efficiency of agricultural land use. Otherwise, there was a moderately negative impact of land use management in terms of the real estate market information on the efficiency of agricultural land use.