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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-098-6-0095

DYNAMIKA KRAJINY OVOCNÝCH SADOV V SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKE

DYNAMICS OF THE ORCHARD LANDSCAPE IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Vladimír Falťan ORCID...1, František Petrovič ORCID...2
1 Katedra fyzickej geografie a geoinformatiky, Prírodovedecká fakulta, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovenská republika
2 Katedra ekológie a environmentalistiky, Fakulta prírodných vied a informatiky, Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Trieda A. Hlinku 1, 949 01 Nitra, Slovenská republika

Orchards are typical landscape elements with a long history in the traditional agricultural management of the landscape. The paper assesses changes in agricultural land use in the Slovak Republic with an emphasis on orchards for the period 1996–2024, based on analyses of relevant statistical data of the total land types (ÚHDP) and the CORINE Land Cover (CLC) database. The area of orchards, based on analyses of national statistics ÚHDP, decreased from approximately 19,000 ha in 1996 to a historical minimum of 16,565 ha in 2015, which was followed by partial stabilization due to legislative amendments and better adjustment of subsidies. Regional differences are significant – while the Bratislava region recorded the largest decrease, the Banská Bystrica region is the only one showing an increase in orchards due to less urbanization pressure and active support from local governments.

Keywords: orchards, agricultural transformation, land use, self-governing regions, Slovakia

pages: 95-103, online: 2026



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