Prospects for land reform development corresponding the needs of sustainable economic growth

Abstract

The article substantiates the assessment methods, social factors, the taxation procedure and the conditions for the organization and features of the transfer of land as property to individuals and legal entities, and also the mechanisms for reforming the land use system based on sublease of land in farms, temporary use of a land plot or part of a dekhkan farm and the owner of the household land. Proposals have been developed to improve the economic and legal state of agricultural land use by introducing amendments and additions to the laws, substantiating the procedure for transferring the right of life-long inherited ownership of a land plot of a dekhkan farm and the owner of a household land as collateral for obtaining a bank loan.

SUMMARY

Today the world land fund is 13.4 billion ha, and only 1.5 billion ha, i.e. 11% of the land is economically favorable for agricultural production.  Their quantity and quality is decreasing from year to year. The volume of cultivated land per capita is being reduced noticeably, the smallest amount of land is in China (0.09 ha) and Egypt (0.05 ha), in Uzbekistan over the past 25 years the area of irrigated crops per capita has decreased from 0.22 ha to 0.11 ha. Therefore, the main problem of the world land fund is reforming the land use system. In this regard, the implementation of Uzbekistan into the documents of such international organizations as the UN, UNESCO, FAO and the effective use of their capabilities is of current importance.

Deficiencies in land use management, incomplete formation of the economic mechanism, to a certain extent has led to unsystematic agricultural land use, serious degradation of land resources. The economic content of the right to land lease is unclear, there is no market value of land, the single land tax does not play a stimulating role in land use. Today in the agriculture of the republic there are 0.02% of the worst lands, 17.9% of the lands below the average, 53.0% of the average, 27.0% of the good and only 2.0% of the very good lands. About 9% of the land fund of Uzbekistan is sown areas, and irrigated lands - 7.5%. Today, there are an average of 7.1 people per hectare of irrigated land, this is the result of rapid population growth rates relative to the area of irrigated land, one person employed in the country's agriculture provides 12 people with food. This indicator in developed countries is 6-8 times higher.

In our opinion, issues related to the quality and cost assessment of land, their accounting and protection in dekhkan and household farms; cluster land use of farms, household and dekhkan farms; the introduction of a sublease form of land use by farms and the transfer of land for temporary use of household and dekhkan farms , while maintaining the inherited right of lifetime ownership of these lands; the introduction of a mechanism for providing by household and dekhkan farms the right of lifetime ownership of land for obtaining a bank  loan; the creation of methodological and practical foundations for the privatization of land, investment, mortgage lending of this process; the development and implementation models of regulation of the land market by the state, “The National Concept for Reforming the Land Use System”, the draft Land Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the new edition, draft laws “On land management”, “On the use of land for agricultural purposes”, “On the acquisition of state land property”, “On soil fertility”, “On land assessment” should find their solution as one of the priority tasks of reforming the land use system in the future.