Presidential Decree No. PP-4700 On additional measures to ensure food security, sustainable use of available resources and state support for agriculture during coronavirus pandemic.

The President, with a view of the maximum efficient use of available resources and opportunities of agriculture, doubling of food crops, achieving high harvest, the introduction of modern approaches to creating new jobs and increasing interest in the agricultural sector in the face of the risk of a shortage of food products in the world, decrees to introduce the following procedure for providing the population on preferential terms of land withdrawn from circulation and land with reserves of groundwater, in order to put them into circulation and produce agricultural commodities: (a) local government establishes technical and financial indicators of water supply, electricity supply and implementation of water-saving technologies on land by drilling wells and restoration of irrigation networks with the identification of contractors for the performance of these works on a competitive basis; (b) local government shall lease land plots introduced in turnover, primarily to families in need of social protection and low-income families with knowledge and skills in agriculture for smallholding up to 1 hectare and, as an exception, for up to 10 years or, as an experiment, granting business entities the right to lease up to 5 hectares of land areas for up to 10 years on the basis of an electronic auction with the condition of prepayment of all expenses; and (c) on the basis of a lease agreement concluded between the initiator and local government, a decision shall be made by the head of local government on the allocation of land areas, envisaging the use on land areas of water-saving technologies, priority planting of potatoes, vegetables, melons, legumes and oilseeds, planting of gardens and vineyards.