Resettlement policy framework and specific resettlement action plan

In terms of reimbursements for land acquisition, all farmers are vulnerable because in most of cases they cannot reveal their real yields, expenditures, and incomes. The average figures, used by Geodezcadastre bodies (average ball-bonitet of the soil, average yields, average net incomes etc.) may cause significant uncovered losses to farmers should large-scaled land acquisition takes place. This is an important reason to conduct unofficial surveys and, if possible, censuses so that real losses can be identified. Thus, to calculate compensation to farmers in the context of the current RF, realistic and accurate data were collected.

Cotton and wheat are the predominant crops on leasehold farm plots, while the areas of other these crops are insignificant. Leasehold farmers keep cropping patterns as instructed by local authorities; the cropping patterns depend on the planned target output of cotton and wheat to be sold to the state procurement organizations. Fruit and vegetable farmers are free to grow anything they want and sell it on the free market, but their land plots are too small and the share of crops excluding cotton and wheat is about 20 percent in the area affected by IDs.