Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Experts from the Institute for Forecasting and Macroeconomic Research (IPMI) analyzed the world’s experience in land reforms. An analysis of the reforms being implemented in Uzbekistan was also carried out.

Among Asian countries, Japan, South Korea, and China have been the most successful in redistributing agricultural land and establishing land ownership. In the period after the Second World War, a number of land redistribution programs were implemented in these countries, in which all rural workers were involved. Farming families were provided with an equal amount of land for cultivation.

Additional state support measures also played a significant role: the creation of infrastructure for the supply of fertilizers and seeds; construction of irrigation systems; implementation of agricultural education programs and a number of others.

As a result, crop yields and agricultural output increased dramatically in all these countries. Employment of the growing population was provided, food security was achieved. In addition, the export of products began to be carried out. All this, in turn, created an impetus for the further industrialization of these countries.

In the CIS countries, the key stage of land reforms occurred in the period after the 1990s. These reforms were aimed at moving from state and collective farms to private land ownership. A number of legislative acts aimed at reforming land relations were adopted.

In Uzbekistan, active transformation of land relations began in the period after 2017. Since 2019, private ownership of land (non-agricultural purposes) has been introduced. A number of powers of local government bodies relating to land relations have been abolished. A lot of work has been done in terms of digitalization in the field of land relations, which ensures greater transparency.

At the end of June this year, a special law approved the procedures for the seizure of land, a specific list of grounds for which the seizure is made, the procedure for compensation, and the process of seizure itself was complicated. This should create additional guarantees of land ownership rights.

For the effective implementation of the successfully launched large-scale land reform, it is necessary:

- to ensure high-quality execution and monitoring of the implementation of all adopted legislative acts;

- improve the package of legal acts in the field of exchange trading and auctions, taking into account the aspects of the development of a competitive environment in the field of land relations;

- to work out at the legislative level the rights to use the lands of adjacent (adjacent) territories of multi-apartment residential buildings;

- to ensure the involvement of the public and a broad discussion of the ongoing reforms.