Chương I Nghị định 35/2015/NĐ-CP về quản lý sử dụng đất trồng lúa: Quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Governing scope

This Decree regulates management and effective use of paddy land; policies supporting rice cultivation for protection and development of paddy land across the country.

Article 2. Regulated entities

Agencies, organizations, households and individuals at home, organizations and individuals abroad concerning management and use of paddy land;

Article 3. Interpretation of terms

In this Decree, some terms are construed as follows:

1. Paddy land means the land that is suitable for rice cultivation including land for growing wet rice and other types of rice.

2. Wet rice land means the land that yields from two crops of wet rice and over in a year.

3. Land for growing other types of rice includes other types of wet rice land and land for growing upland rice.

4. Land for growing the remaining wet rice means the land that is suitable for only one crop of wet rice in a year.

5. Pollution to paddy land means activities of injecting into the land toxins, harmful microorganisms and parasites that cause changes to structures and components of land, adversely affect rice production and quality, health of human beings, animals and environment.

6. Degradation to paddy land means activities causing sheet erosion, silting, aridification, salinization, acidification, aluming to the land making it less fertile and lose balance of nutrients that result in productivity reduction.

7. Distortion of paddy land surface means activities that cause changes to surface of paddy field making it uneven in structure, components of nutrients and in microorganism system and impossible for growing rice.

8. Annual plant means a plant that is sown, harvested and completes its cycle of production within one year, including annual plants with roots retained for harvesting not exceeding five years.

9. Perennial plant is a plant that is sown once, grows and harvested for years.

10. Combination with aquaculture on paddy land means the combination of rice cultivation and aquaculture: including a rice crop and then an aquacultural crop, or developing rice and aquaculture simultaneously.