On June 30, 2018 the government issued Decree No.96/2018/NĐ-CP regulating the prices of irrigation products and services and the support for the use of irrigation water products and services. This Decree takes effect from July 01, 2018
According to Decree No.96/2018/NĐ-CP, the objects entitled to support the use of irrigation water product or service including:
1. Households and individuals using agricultural land for growing food crops include:
– The whole area for growing food crops, include land inherited, donated, transferred land use rights;
– All of area agricultural land serve for researching, test production; The area of annual crop land has at least one rice crop per year. The area of annual crop land has at least one rice crop per year include planned land, plan on planting at least one rice crop in the year or planned land plot and annual planting plan, but actually plant at least one rice crop in the year
2. The poor households and individuals are assigned agricultural land by the State according to regulations.
3. Households and individuals using land for salt production.
4. Households and individuals using agricultural land within the quota for vegetable growing, coloring and plating; Long-term industrial plants, short-term industrial plants including winter crops; fruit trees; flower; medicinal plants; aquaculture (except for aquaculture in lakes, dams, rivers, streams, lagoons …); breed.
5. Households and individuals are farmers who received land within the fixed quotas allocated by agricultural companies and forestry companies (state-run agricultural and forestry farms) for agricultural production according to the provisions of law.
6. Organizations and individuals performing the task of draining and draining water in rural and urban areas, except for inner cities.
7. Organizations and individuals performing the task of flood drainage, flood prevention, tide prevention, salinity prevention, saline water drainage, alum washing, and sweet keeping in localities.
Therefore, it can be seen that in comparison with previous documents, Decree No.96/2018/NĐ-CP has added to the list of subsidized irrigation service providers. This Decree is expected to further promote the development of applying irrigation water in agriculture, forestry and salt production.