The National Agency for Sustainable Land Management and Land Use Monitoring presented its annual activity report to the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture
Giorgi Misheladze, Chairman of the National Agency for Sustainable Land Management and Land Use Monitoring, presented to the Committee a report on the Agency’s activities in 2024 and provided an update on the ongoing activities planned for 2025. The meeting was attended by Lasha Dolidze, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture; Gela Samkharauli, Chairman of the Committee; and other Committee members
Giorgi Misheladze highlighted the Agency’s key areas of activities, particularly the ones undertaken in 2024 to establish a unified database of integrated land resources data and to develop a national land balance. He reported that land plots were identified and decoded across 6,415,384 ha, including 2,544,835 ha of agricultural land. To support the preparation of an updated land balance, during the first eight months of 2025 land use and land cover data were processed for 620,028 ha in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and in the municipalities of Ninotsminda, Akhaltsikhe, Adigeni, and Borjomi.
During the reporting period, under the windbreak (field protection) strip inventory program, 2,684.57 ha of windbreaks were inventoried across five municipalities. In the first eight months of the current year, this figure increased to 5,020.09 ha in 15 municipalities. By the end of the year, an additional 435.23 ha in the Guria region are scheduled to be inventoried.
With regard to the State Program for Access to State-Owned Pastures, it was reported that in 2024 lease agreements were signed for 9,395 ha of pastures, while in the first eight months of 2025 agreements were signed for an additional 1,503 ha. Since the launch of the program in 2021, a total of 222 active lease agreements have been concluded, covering 21,140 ha of pastures.
The participants of the meeting positively assessed the activities carried out by the agency.
