Abstract: Independent land management by landowners in Ukraine is significant. As a rule, such management is shadowy, with higher costs and lower revenues compared to public land management. Landowners and the country’s economy lose from this state of independent land management. Moreover, shadowing in the agricultural sector affects other related industries, which increases the size of the shadow economy.

The article examines the organizational and legal and organizational and production forms of land management. The existing forms of agricultural cooperation are analyzed. The factors influencing agricultural cooperation are identified. It is concluded that the problem of public organized independent land management can be solved through legal, institutional and organizational mechanisms which will ensure cooperation of landowners with a view to reducing the financial and organizational costs required to ensure publicity of land management. To solve the problem of public organized independent management of land resources, the author proposes a new institution of land management which operates on a unifying basis and provides land management entities with a reduction of costs and an increase.

The author proposes a certain organizational and production platform as a model of the new institution of land management. The platform has centralized accounting, unified tax administration, unified statistical reporting, and is managed by organizers with outstanding knowledge and experience, which ensures a reduction in production costs and an increase in profits for the platform participants — land owners. To formalize the relations between the landowner and the organizational and production platform, a land use agreement and a unification agreement are concluded, which regulates the relations between the landowner and the organizational and production platform.