ArmInfo.A working group will be formed in Armenia to study the situation with uncultivated agricultural lands. This was stated on February 11 at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Armenia on Territorial Administration, Local Government, Agriculture and Nature Protection, by the head of the Committee Varazdat Karapetyan.
According to him, the group will consist of 9 members, of which 3 from the parliamentary committee, 2 each from the Ministry of Agriculture, Agrarian University and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In fact, as the head of the Committee noted, this is about solving the problem of 200 thousand hectares of land, which is about 45% in the total agricultural balance of the country. The group intends to solve the problem, including by amending and supplementing the land tax and the Land Code.
Earlier, RA Deputy Minister of Agriculture Garnik Petrosyan told ArmInfo that 90% of all uncultivated agricultural land was privatized. The government of the country, adhering to the constitutional right of citizens to property, nevertheless, intends to solve the problem by legislative initiatives. According to analysts of ArmInfo, toughening the land tax will force land owners to "remember" about their property.
