All for Land Reclamation

Agricultural lands in Azerbaijan are used for other purposes. The reform distributed lands to the peasants, but many of them can not fully become owners of land due to the poor irrigation base. In areas of intensive livestock the earth is trampled by cattle, which eats scrubby vegetation, which also leads to undesirable consequences.

As the Center for Economic Research said, these and other topics were the subject of detailed discussions with the representatives of local authorities in the field and with experts in the ministry project "Natural and anthropogenic factors of land degradation: enlightenment and social control" with the financial and organizational support of the OSCE Office in Baku.

According to the coordinator of the project, the director of the CER Ghalib Togrul, the process of reclaiming pastures and fertile areas affected by erosion, degradation and increased salinity is a long and laborious process, requiring supervision by the State Committee of Land and Cartography, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment, Land Reclamation Committee and other stakeholders in support of the local IW.

At a meeting with experts from NGO the chief specialist of land protection and control of the Committee for Land and Cartography Ismet Khanbabayev referred to Article 45 of the Land Code, according to which, detailed maps of land, disabling as a result of human factors. He noted periodic penalties against negligent owners and land users. However, these are half-measures, and without the complex interaction of all stakeholders the positive result will be incomplete, he said.

According to representatives of Land Reclamation and Water Resources of Azerbaijan, excessive salinity observed on 600 thousand hectares in the country. Unfortunately, due to the lack of an effective mechanism of administrative interference in private property, you can not centralize the efforts of regulatory authorities.

At the meeting, they considered the importance of large-scale educational actions by leading electronic media and communicating through them to the people of the relevance of the idea of restoration of degraded land holdings. - 17D-