Main points
- The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a decision that accelerates the return of agricultural land to use by changing the procedure for surveying areas with possible mine contamination.
- Local governments will verify the use of land, and if it is actually being cultivated, tax breaks will be revoked to safely return it to economic use.
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The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a decision that should accelerate the return of agricultural lands to full use. These are areas that formally have the status of potentially contaminated, but are actually used by farmers.
The government is accelerating the introduction of demined lands into cultivation
The government has made changes to the Procedure for inspecting land plots that benefit from privileges due to possible mine contamination, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko announced.
From now on, local governments will check whether such lands are being used for their intended purpose. The information collected will be transmitted to the Humanitarian Demining Center, after which mine action specialists will conduct a non-technical survey to confirm or refute the fact of contamination.
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If it is determined that the plot is actually being cultivated, the tax benefits for it will be canceled.
According to the GRIT platform, currently more than 10 thousand hectares of land simultaneously have the status of potentially contaminated and are used in agricultural production. The priority is precisely those areas that can be safely returned to full-fledged economic circulation.
Please note! The Prime Minister also reported that since February 2022, 49,415 square kilometers of territories have already been returned to productive use after being cleared of explosives.
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