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Ukraine should complete land reform in 2013, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk has said.

“The state should complete land reform in 2013. We have no other way out,” the government’s Uriadovy Kurier newspaper quoted him as saying.

Prysiazhniuk said that within this period, Ukraine should “put into the legislative framework the sale of agricultural land, the formation of a state land bank, and the terms of cooperation between the owners of land plots and agricultural producers.”

He also said that land legislation should be improved by September-October 2013, when the budget for 2014 is formed.

As reported, a law extending the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land until January 1, 2013 is now in effect in Ukraine.

On December 9, 2011, the Verkhovna Rada passed a bill on the land market in first reading. The document is currently being prepared for second reading.