During the war, the food security of the state becomes critical. To ensure the maximum intensity of agricultural production in these conditions, the Parliament of Ukraine registered a bill #7178.
The bill will allow Ukrainian farmers to quickly gain full access to agricultural lands of our state for a successful sowing campaign.
Why is this important?
The procedures established today for peacetime for the use of agricultural land for state and communal ownership, unclaimed, unallocated land, as well as land remaining in collective ownership, are long in time, require a number of successive decisions by land managers, organization and holding of land auctions, etc.
In addition, under martial law, when the State Land Cadastre, the State Register of Real Property Rights and Encumbrances do not function, and administrative services are not provided, the provision of state and communal land to agricultural producers is virtually impossible. Areas prepared for transfer to land auctions remain unallocated.
About 724 thousand hectares of agricultural lands are in constant use of state enterprises, institutions and organizations in Ukraine, which due to unsatisfactory financial and economic condition of a significant part of these land users, lack of sowing material, logistics, etc. may not be used or used with low efficiency in 2022.
What would the results of adopted bill be?
The adoption of the bill will simplify the acquisition of rights to use land, in particular:
- for the purposes of agricultural production will be provided about 20 thousand hectares of communal land, which were prepared for lease at land auctions;
- legal preconditions will be created for conducting intensive agricultural production on 300-400 thousand hectares of state-owned lands, which are currently in constant use of state enterprises of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, NAAS of Ukraine, educational institutions, etc.;
- as a result, it will ensure the production of about 1.4 million tons of grain crops on these lands in 2022.
The document was developed with the participation of BRDO experts.
We hope that the document will be approved by the Ukrainian Parliament as soon as possible.