Agricultural land in Georgia is characterized by highly fragmented, small-scale plots in private ownership (36 percent of all agricultural registered land) and agricultural plots of larger sizes in State ownership and management (64 percent of all registered agricultural land). One of the ways to move from subsistence to commercial agriculture is to enable progressive consolidation of agricultural land in private ownership, - reads the report published by the World Bank.
"The average agricultural land area operated by an agricultural holding is 1.37 hectares. In terms of land holding, the largest average agricultural land area is 3.55 hectares in Kakheti region, followed by Samtskhe-Javakheti region (2.21 hectares). More than 50 percent of the agricultural land in Samtskhe-Javakheti is dedicated to pastures (GoG 2013). Kvemo Kartli region is third in terms of average agricultural land with 1.81 hectares (GFA 2018). In the remaining regions, most of the agricultural holdings are small-scale family farms under 1.37 hectares, which is the country’s average", - the document reads.
According to the report, in Georgia 64 percent of land is registered as agricultural in the name of State or municipalities and 28 percent of land is not yet registered and most of this land is likely to be agricultural (approximately 82 percent according to the estimations by NAPR from the Systematic Land Registration piloting).
