II.Прочтите и переведите текст: Text a. The Need for Land Cadastre

Our country is the owner of vast land resources which must be used to provide people with high levels of living and with space for industrial and agricultural growth.

This country needs information of all lands in order to control and direct land use practices. This information is provided by the State land cadastre.

The need for land cadastre has increased in recent years - for two reasons. One is the complexity of modern agriculture. Thе other is the finiteness of land and other natural resources. All this leads to more reasons for much attention to land cadastral survey.

The cadastral survey information is needed for cost benefit analyses in agro-industrial associations and for proper agricultural planning. The land cadastral survey is needed for land use planning and land conservation practices.

The Land Cadastre provides information for State control of land uses.

Basic land title records of all lands are maintained by the department of Land Uses and Land Use Planning of Ministry of Agriculture. The records relate to all lands. They comprise cadastral survey field notations affecting the title or status of lands.

Cadastral surveys are of great importance for our land title system.

Land identification is a necessary prerequisite to wise use of land resources. Specialists concerned with the management of land and related natural resources consult the records for the title information.

III. Прочтите текст переведите его на русский язык: Text b. What does Land Cadastre Consist of?

The land cadastre consists of four parts: 1. land users’ registration; 2. the title of quantity and quality of land resources; 3. soils’ qualities assessment; 4. economic evaluation.

The land use planning agencies register the right on land parcels which are given to land users. The new land users are registered when decisions arc taken by local administrative bodies.. All kinds of land uses must be registered in land-title books.

The land users are given land parcels for certain uses and for different needs. The lands are divided into agricultural and non-agricultural lands. The former are subdivided into pastures, grazing lands, grasslands and so on. The State land-title book is the only document for land registration.

Land evaluation consists of soils' assessment and economic evaluation of land resources. The assessment of soils determines the natural fertility of land resources and land capability for agricultural production.

Land inventory is a systematic survey of land capability of all regions. The boundaries of the survey embrace land of many millions of square kilometres. Land inventory is also a means to control land users. Land use planners make analysis of uses, particularly the efficiency of agricultural production. The data of the land productivity are quite necessary to determine the rate of taxation and for proper land use management. The land users must know the land capability of all the lands which they operate. Much is being done to carry out soil surveys.

For many years soil scientists and land use planners have been carrying out a programme of classification and mapping the soils. There are now soil maps for almost all agricultural areas. These maps describe the quality of the soils and whether the soil is clay, silt, loam, sand or gravel. They indicate soil's fertility and agricultural capability.