PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of July 17, 2014 No. 347

About the state agrarian policy

For the purpose of development of agro-industrial complex and enhancement of mechanisms of rendering the state support to the subjects performing activities in the field of agro-industrial production I decide:

1. Determine that the state agrarian policy is one of the directions of domestic policy of the Republic of Belarus providing stimulation of increase in efficiency of agro-industrial complex based on enhancement of specialization of agricultural production and its organizational and economic structure, rational use of lands and the state support of agro-industrial complex.

2. Main objectives of the state agrarian policy are:

2.1. increase in competitiveness of agricultural products, raw materials and food for ensuring balance of the domestic food market and building-up of the export potential;

2.2. forming of the efficient market of agricultural products, raw materials and food with the developed infrastructure, including by phased transition to open pricing, increases in efficiency of productive and economic activities of the subjects performing activities in the field of agro-industrial production;

2.3. creation of the favorable investment climate and increase in the volume of investment into agro-industrial complex;

2.4. assistance to structural changes in agro-industrial complex, including changes of the intra production and property relations, the providing free development of all patterns of ownership;

2.5. maintenance of parity of price index on industrial output, works (service) used by agricultural producers and price index on agricultural products;

2.6. providing the right of citizens to sufficient nutrition, including by rendering internal food aid of the needing part of the population;

2.7. ensuring sustainable development of the rural territories, employment of rural population, increase in level of his life, including compensation of the workers occupied in agricultural industry;

2.8. preserving and reproduction of the natural resources used for production of agricultural products, raw materials and food.

3. The state agrarian policy is based on the following principles:

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