The current issues of land use of territories of gardeners’ associations in Lithuania

The article presents the analysis of the Associations of Gardeners of Lithuania as well as the undergoing changes in their territories. The objective of the article is to discuss the current situation in the territories allocated to the amateur gardens and to assess the current issues concerning the land use and management. The associations of gardeners have encountered a great number of problems concerning the territorial planning, engineering communication services and services maintaining the needs of the associations, the expansion as well as development of these areas. The associations of gardeners comprise 216932 individual gardeners; they manage 228673 land parcels owned by them, which occupy 20714 ha.