Environmental and Social Management Framework (esmf)

Figure 7. Land Map
2.3.7.Land resources⁵

74. 
    Land resources included lands used in agriculture and lands covered with forest. 4227 thousand hectares of area are used in agriculture in Republic. These lands, together with the non-agricultural territories of badlands areas, swamps and mountainous areas form the country's land fund.
    
75. 
    Land fund in Azerbaijan is 8641.5 thousand hectares. Its 77% is used. In agriculture fertile lands consists of 44% of sowing areas and tillage, 4% of long-term sowing, 26% of the hay field and pastures. The sown areas occupy 1454 thousand hectares of the country.⁶
    
76. 
    Areas of land not used in agriculture are 40% of the fund. 13% of these lands is private agricultural lands, 12.1% forests, 2.7% bushes, 0.8% swamps, 3.6% water basins, 31.6% other land (roads, villages, cities, industrial facilities).⁷
    
77. 
    In Azerbaijan there is per capita 1.08 ha of land fund, 0.2 ha of sown area, 0.6 ha of suitable land.