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Abstract
The aim of land consolidation projects is to improve the competitiveness of agriculture.
Since land consolidation is subsidised by national and European means, the effectiveness
of such measures must be determined. The following paper presents a method which
makes it possible to calculate the direct economic effects of land consolidation. The
calculations, considering labour demand, machinery costs and headland effects, compare the
economic situation before and after land consolidation. The method was applied to four land consolidation
projects in Bavaria. It can be shown that, to a varying degree, land consolidation
in the studied areas leads to a substantial decrease in labour demand and machinery costs.