agronomy Article Building a Spatial Information System to Support the Development of Agriculture in Poland and Ukraine Beata Szafranska 1, Malgorzata Busko 2,* , Oleksandra Kovalyshyn 3 and Pavlo Kolodiy 4 1 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Marshal’s Office of the Malopolska Voivodeship, 30017 Krakow, Poland;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +48-12-6174122 Received: 28 October 2020; Accepted: 25 November 2020; Published: 27 November 2020 Abstract: The space of rural areas is subject to constant changes in terms of structure and development. The area structure of rural areas, especially in the south and east of Poland, remains unsatisfactory. The weakness of Polish agriculture is the fragmentation of the area structure of its farms; this was due to historical, natural, economic and social factors and, to a large extent, tradition. Therefore, the current status of agricultural land in Poland requires carrying out many arrangement and agricultural operations. In Ukraine, there is also no coherent IT system that would allow for the efficient management of rural space and agriculture. In order to conduct a coherent rural development policy in the region, the self-governments in Poland and in Ukraine are facing the need to expand the existing spatial information infrastructure system.