This Regional Law establishes legal, economic and social grounds for constituting and functioning of peasant farms, including family farms. Plots of agricultural land can be allotted (free of charge or for payment) or purchased in ownership by peasant farms and family farms.

This Regional Law establishes maximum and minimum areas of land plots authorized for allotment in ownership to citizens out of stock of land pertaining to state or municipal property for farming, gardening, horticulture, stockbreeding and housing construction in rural areas. Maximum areas of land plots shall be authorized for allotment once-only free of charge in ownership to some categories of citizens that have the right to such allotment in accordance with the list of categories of citizens established by federal and regional legislation.

This Regional Law establishes legal grounds in the sphere of land reclamation ensuring efficient land tenure and protection of drained land. The scope of land reclamation shall be to improve productivity and sustainability of agriculture, stable agricultural production on the basis of conservation and improvement of soil fertility and involvement of unused and low-productive land in agricultural production. Land reclamation shall be classified as follows: (a) hydrotechnical amelioration; (b) agroforestry; (c) land clearance operations; and (d) chemical amelioration.

The Order partly amends Order No. 106, whereby it change provisions for the protection of agricultural land against soil erosion. From the harvest period to 15 February of the following year there may not be made subsequent plowing of contiguous agricultural land of 5 000 square mt. - in adherence to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture's Internet field map: there is a requirement of a minimum slope of 12 degrees; a high risk of soil erosion by water runoff; and it should be located in the designated field.

La presente Ley reforma la Ley de Reforma Agraria de 1981, y garantiza la propiedad de la tierra a todos aquellos que la trabajan productiva y eficientemente.

El presente Acuerdo emite el Reglamento de la reforma de la Ley de Reforma Agraria, que establece el procedimiento de afectación y adjudicación de bienes al Estado (Capítulo I), el procedimiento de indemnización (Capítulo III), el procedimiento sobre la asignación de bienes rústicos y el título de reforma agraria (Capítulo IV), y de la composición y funcionamiento del Consejo Nacional de Reforma Agraria (Capítulo V).El Capítulo II, sobre las Zonas de desarrollo agropecuario y reforma agraria, y casos de utilidad publica o interés social, establece que el Acuerdo de Declaración de Zona de De

El presente Acuerdo emite el Reglamento de la Ley de Reforma Agraria, que establece el procedimiento de afectación de las propiedades o tierras rústicas y su adjudicación al Estado, el procedimiento de indemnización, y el procedimiento de asignación con el objeto de hacer llegar a la población nicaragüense en una forma más eficiente los beneficios de una Reforma Agraria Integral.

This Regional Law regulates relations concerning ownership, tenure, management and disposal of agricultural land plots and agricultural land shares in common property. It establishes maximum and minimum land areas of the consolidated plots of agricultural land in case of allotment thereof out of stock of public and municipal land. Mass media shall have the duty to publish information related to turnover of the plots of agricultural land. The plots of agricultural land can be allotted to citizens for farming, grazing and haymaking, and other agricultural purposes.

This Regional Law establishes legal grounds for performance of subsidiary smallholding by citizens (natural persons) and state support thereto by state bodies and local government in the form of financial assistance for production of agricultural commodities and preferential taxation. Either urban land or agricultural land in the countryside, allotted to citizens or purchased thereby, can be used for subsidiary smallholding. Subsidiary smallholding shall include farming, gardening, horticulture and stockbreeding.

This Regional Law establishes legal grounds for state regulation for ensuring agricultural land fertility. Authorized state regional land institution shall perform the following plenary powers: (a) elaboration and realization of measures for economic stimulation of landowners, tenants, including leaseholders for soil improvement with a view of ensuring agricultural land fertility; (b) public investments in ensuring agricultural land fertility; (c) promotion of agrochemical treatment of agricultural land; and (d) monitoring of agricultural land.

This Regional Law establishes minimum and maximum land areas of plots of land that can be allotted to citizens in ownership out of stock of public or municipal land for farming, gardening, horticulture, stockbreeding and suburban housing construction, including allotment of the aforesaid plots of land free of charge in cases envisaged by Land Code. Maximum land area that can be allotted for farming shall not exceed 10 percent of total available agricultural land area within the boundaries of a municipal unit at the moment of allotment.

This Regional Law regulates relations concerning ownership, tenure and disposal of plots agricultural land and also land share in common property. It also establishes that minimum agricultural land plot allotted to legal persons shall be 0,25 ha, while maximum agricultural land plot that can be allotted to natural and legal persons shall not exceed 50 percent of total agricultural land available within the boundaries of a single municipal unit. Regional administration shall have preferential terms for purchase of agricultural land in case of public sale thereof.