Farm land and things to know

Here are important information related to farmland that everyone needs to know well.

Farmland belongs to the group of agricultural land specified in Article 10 of the 2013 Land Law.

What is farmland?

Farmland or land used for farm economy is a type of land in the group of agricultural land specified in Article 10 of the 2013 Land Law, including:

- Land for growing annual crops, including land for growing rice and other annual crops;

- Land for planting perennial crops;

- Production forest land;

- Protection forest land;

- Special-use forest land;

- Aquaculture land;

- Salt-making land;

- Other agricultural land, including land used for construction of greenhouses and other types of houses for cultivation purposes, including forms of cultivation not directly on the land; building barns for raising cattle, poultry and other animals permitted by law; land for cultivation, animal husbandry and aquaculture for the purpose of study, research and experiment; nursery land for seedlings, seedlings and land for planting flowers and ornamental plants.

Farm classification

Pursuant to Article 3 of Circular 27/2011/TT-BNNPTNT stipulating the criteria and procedures for granting certificates of farm economy, farms are defined by production fields as follows:

- Cultivation farm;

- Farm;

- Forestry farm;

- Aquaculture farms;

- General farm.

In addition, specialized farms (cultivation, livestock, forestry, aquaculture) are farms with a proportion of the value of agricultural products and commodities of the industry accounting for more than 50% of the structure of commodity output value. of the farm during the year.

In case no industry accounts for more than 50% of the value of commodity output, it is called a general farm.

Criteria for determining farm economy

Article 5 of Circular 27/2011/TT-BNNPTNT stipulates that individuals and households engaged in agricultural, forestry and aquaculture production meeting the farm economic standards must satisfy the following conditions:

For cultivation, aquaculture and general production establishments, they must achieve:

- Having an area above the land limit, at least: 3.1 ha for the Southeast region and the Mekong River Delta; 2.1 ha for the remaining provinces.

- The value of goods output reaches 700 million VND/year.

For livestock production establishments, the output value of goods must be at least VND 1,000 million/year.

For forestry production establishments, they must have an area of ​​at least 31 hectares and an average output value of 500 million VND/year or more.