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Uzbek Farmers Unhappy With President s Order Giving Land To Jobless Youth
March 14, 2021 10:17 GMT
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Just as many Uzbek farmers began sowing the seeds for this season s crops, President Shavkat Mirziyoev called on them to give some of their agricultural land to young people without jobs. Every farmer should allocate two hectares of land [that will] be given to four young people, [each of them getting] half a hectare, Mirziyoev said at a cabinet meeting in Tashkent on January 27. They will grow whatever crop they like on that land.
The president ordered that one hectare from every 10 hectares of farmland should be given to young people.