Farm Privatization Project

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The main objective of the Farm Privatization Project (FPP) is to accelerate the Government's program for land privatization and farm restructuring of representative state and collective farms in a systematic manner and to provide models which could serve as a basis for wider geographical replicability. This objective will be achieved by providing: (1) essential support services necessary to sustain privatized agriculture at the raion and farm levels. These are: land registration, farm information and advisory services, credit services, and rehabilitation of critical irrigation and drainage infrastructure; (2) an enabling environment which will build linkages between key institutions, viz., the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Land Committee, the State Irrigation Committee, Agrarian Reform Commissions and agricultural banking institutions; and (3) a community based social services and formation of village groups in support of land privatization and farm restructuring. The project will consist of four components to be implemented over a period of five years. These are: (1) farm privatization support services at the national level and in the raions; (2) rehabilitation of the main irrigation water supply and drainage works; and (3) a community development program; and (4) project management and implementation.