Presidential Decree No. UP-5199 “On measures to radically improve the system for protecting the rights and legitimate interests of farmers, dehkan farms and smallholders, and efficient use of agricultural land areas under crops”.

The President decrees to establish beginning from the harvest of 2018 the modalities, according to which: (a) the efficiency of land plots tenure pertaining to farms shall be discussed at the local government meetings on a quarterly basis, while the efficiency of use of agricultural land areas under crops pertaining to dehkan farms and smallholders shall be discussed monthly in the self-governing bodies of citizens; and (b) in relation to farmers, dehkan farms and smallholders who inefficiently used land plots, that did not completely sow crops and that did not timely implement agrotechnical measures, strict liability measures will be applied to the extent of cessation of their rights to land plots.