Policy Note Household Farm Land Holdings in the Feed the Future/Tajikistan Zone of Influence, 2015 (original) (raw)
This note investigates the amount of land held by household farms, as opposed to private dehqon and state-owned farms, in the twelve Feed the Future/Tajikistan " zone of influence " districts in Khatlon province. Household farm arable land turns out to be a surprisingly large percentage of total arable land used for agriculture. Tajik statistics obscure this phenomenon because they do not count household land as " agricultural. " Household farms are found to control almost a quarter of total arable land in the twelve Feed the Future districts. Nationwide, they hold 27 percent of total arable land. The relatively large total land area held by household farms and the household farms' tendency to produce higher-value agricultural products help explain why, as President Rahmon said in 2014, household farms produce some 61 percent of total agricultural output by value in Tajikistan.
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