ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF LAND RESOURCES IN NICARAGUA

Abstract

We can assess the land from different perspectives: productive,
economic, social, organizational and historical. In this case we
want to assess soil as merchandise, because it is an object that
we can sell and buy. But there are particularities differentiate
that it from the other goods, such as: it is not been from the
preceding work of the human beings and has a limited
geographic space. In Central America, Nicaragua is the one
that the highest land availability per person whichever El
Salvador has the lowest land availability per person, in case
of relating with the total area. But when it is related to the
arable surface, the situation is different for El Salvador, since
Costa Rica has less arable area availability per person. This is
the good news, because the indicating country has more time
to improvement: productive, environmental, economic and
social situation. Nicaragua has 82% of its soil managed with
plants and animals, 16% of the land of farming use, but, the
structure of use of the farming area is an extensive use. The
39.9% of the remainder area grow nature pasture and 23.1% of
the land remain in follow. This it is an important point of view,
due to the increasing necessity of foods and conservation of
the natural resources The coefficient of Gini is of 0,72, which
represents a high level of concentration of the use of the land.
According to the model of simple regression that we have used
on the basis of the data of the FAO, expected that every year
are lost 91,760 hectare of forests. Of 1,925,000 of arable
area that Nicaragua has, which means that 4,77% of the arable
area of our country every year is deforested. This is a serious
panorama that is needed to put attention.

DOI: 10.5377/calera.v9i12.7