Resettlement policy framework and specific resettlement action plan

Expenditures per hectare are relatively uniform over the Project districts. The average income of leasehold farms over 12 months preceding the SA survey consisted of 20 percent of the gross revenue. Farmers who grow fruits have the highest income per hectare, while those who deal with cotton or wheat may even lose money. However, among the orchard farmers, there were two without cash incomes because the gardens are still very young and no harvesting has yet occurred.
Bookkeeping is a very weak part of leasehold farmer’s activities. Cotton and wheat growing farmers are very vulnerable in terms of freedom of using their banking accounts:

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  One the one hand, the necessity to sell sufficient produce within the State order system discourages farmers from showing a poor yield. In some cases, unsuccessful farmers have to buy wheat at local markets and pass it to the State to fulfill their contract and prevent sanctions (if the farmer does not fulfill the State order during 3 years, the leasing contract on the land can be denounced).
  
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  On the other hand, too much production may cause requests to sell the production on fixed price (lower than the free market) if a raion has not fulfilled the State order.
  

Balancing between these two choices, most farmers try to have close-to-zero balance in their accounting books, as it shown in Table 5 below.

Table 5: Officially registered indicators of performance on affected leasehold farms in 2008 (extracted from accounting books of farms)