Land allocation limits for agricultural land under the 2024 Land Law.

Article 176 of the 2024 Land Law stipulates:

1. The land allocation limits for annual crop cultivation, aquaculture, and salt production for individuals directly engaged in agricultural production are stipulated as follows:

a) Not more than 3 hectares for each land type in provinces and centrally-administered cities in the Southeast region and the Mekong Delta region;

b) Not more than 2 hectares for each land type in other provinces and centrally-administered cities.

2. The land allocation limit for perennial crop cultivation to individuals shall not exceed 10 hectares for communes, wards, and towns in the plains; and not exceed 30 hectares for communes, wards, and towns in the midland and mountainous regions.

3. The land allocation limit for individuals shall not exceed 30 hectares for each type of land:

a) Protective forest land;

b) Production forest land is planted forest.

4. Individuals allocated multiple types of land, including land for annual crops, aquaculture, and salt production, shall have a total land allocation limit of no more than 5 hectares; if additional land for perennial crops is allocated, the limit shall not exceed 5 hectares for communes, wards, and towns in the plains, and not exceed 25 hectares for communes, wards, and towns in the midland and mountainous regions; if additional land for planted production forests is allocated, the limit shall not exceed 25 hectares.

5. The limit for allocating unused land to individuals for use in accordance with the plan for agricultural production, forestry, aquaculture, and salt production shall not exceed the land allocation limits stipulated in Clauses 1, 2, and 3 of this Article and shall not be included in the agricultural land allocation limit for individuals stipulated in Clauses 1, 2, and 3 of this Article.

The provincial People's Committee shall prescribe the land allocation limits for unused land to individuals for use in accordance with the land use plan and scheme approved by the competent authority.

6. For agricultural land areas used by individuals outside the commune, ward, or town where they are registered as permanent residents, individuals may continue to use them. If the land was allocated without payment of land use fees, it will be included in the individual's agricultural land allocation limit.

The land management agency that has allocated agricultural land to individuals without collecting land use fees shall send a notification to the People's Committee of the commune where the individual is registered as a permanent resident to calculate the agricultural land allocation limit.

7. Agricultural land owned by individuals through transfer, lease, sublease, inheritance, donation of land use rights, capital contribution in the form of land use rights from others, contracting, or land leased from the State shall not be included in the agricultural land allocation limits stipulated in this Article.

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