There should be preferential policies for poor households and ethnic minority households regarding land.

According to Delegate Nang Xo Vi, the Land Law Project is a very important law project, directly related to the majority of people, especially ethnic minorities in mountainous, remote, and extremely difficult areas, who live mainly on farming.

According to statistics, by 2019, the whole country had about 52,450 ethnic minority households lacking residential land and housing, 210,400 households lacking production land and in need of direct support for production land, and 462,000 households lacking production land and in need of support for career conversion.

According to the delegate, currently, most of the agricultural land area has been allocated land and granted land use right certificates to the users. In the process of implementing the State's legal policies on land, the unused land area is mostly sloping land and has been used for slash-and-burn cultivation, and the land quality has declined. Therefore, exploiting this unused land area to solve the problem of residential land and production land for ethnic minorities is very difficult. If implemented, it would require a large amount of investment to reclaim, restore, and improve the land, but the land quality is not good for cultivation. The delegate said that according to information from the provinces, many localities said that the land fund is very small and the support level for creating land funds is low, making it difficult to create more residential land and production land for ethnic minorities.

On the other hand, the whole country has been focusing on implementing 3 national target programs in the past time. Therefore, in the coming time, the areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions will be reduced significantly. In addition, according to the goal of Resolution No. 88 of the 14th National Assembly, by 2030, ethnic minority mountainous areas will have no particularly difficult villages or communes. Thus, the beneficiaries of the policy will be greatly narrowed compared to the provisions in Clause 1 and Clause 2, Article 17 of the draft Land Law (amended).

In order to institutionalize the content of having appropriate policies to prioritize land allocation for ethnic minorities lacking production land, financial policies on land suitable for poor households and ethnic minority households in the spirit of Resolution No. 18 of the 13th Central Executive Committee on continuing to innovate and perfect institutions and policies, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of land management and use, delegates proposed, firstly, amending Clause 1 and Clause 2, Article 17 of the draft law on the State's responsibility for land for ethnic minorities in the direction of expanding the scope of ethnic minorities in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions to be guaranteed by the State for residential land, community living land, and production land in accordance with the customs, cultural identity and actual conditions of each region.

Second, in addition to current policies, it is necessary to create more land funds from the actual area of localities for land use to solve the production needs of households lacking production land, focusing on agricultural land funds managed by communes and residential communities, especially the areas that farms and forestry farms have handed over to localities for management. Because, if the state does not increase the appropriate level of support, it will be difficult to implement.

For example: the land area recovered from farms and forestry farms according to Resolution No. 112 of the National Assembly was handed over to local management and assigned to ethnic minority households lacking land for production, but in the past, most of this area could not be used due to lack of capital for surveying and mapping cadastral maps, land reclamation, because the capital source for these tasks is guaranteed by the district budget, while the budget of districts and mountainous provinces is currently very difficult, 2/3 is supported by the higher budget, so there is no funding to arrange for these tasks.

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