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The administration of Nishon district in Kashkadarya region has formally asked the agro-industrial inspectorate to pursue court action to cancel the agricultural land leases of two limited liability companies after monitoring found the plots had been left idle or used in breach of their stated purposes.
In a letter dated 1 May 2026 and addressed to the head of the Kashkadarya regional office of the Agro-Industrial Complex Inspection under the Ministry of Agriculture, the Nishon district governor raised the cases of Nishan Chikens S LLC and Khudoyberdi Bobo Agro Chorvasi LLC, both of which received land allocations in 2020.
What the Companies Were Supposed to Do — and Didn’t
Nishan Chikens S LLC was allocated 36.09 hectares, of which 34.91 hectares are irrigated, specifically to develop poultry farming. A long-term lease agreement was concluded between the district governor and the company’s management on 1 January 2024 and registered with the cadastral authority. Despite poultry farming being listed as the company’s primary activity, district monitoring found not a single bird on the premises.
Khudoyberdi Bobo Agro Chorvasi LLC received 21 hectares — 16 of them irrigated — for vegetable growing and livestock development, also in 2020, under a similarly structured long-term lease. District agricultural department monitoring found that between 2024 and 2026 the crops specified in the contract had not been planted across the designated areas, and that parts of the land had simply been abandoned.
The district administration’s letter characterises both cases as systematic violations of lease conditions resulting from the irresponsibility of the companies’ managers. It cites repeated breaches of land-use obligations, failure to apply required agrotechnical measures, and inefficient use of water resources.
Legal Basis and Next Steps
The district administration grounded its request in Articles 36 and 38 of Uzbekistan’s Land Code and in norms contained in Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 22 of 31 October 2013, which set out the procedure for revoking land rights — including lease rights — where land is not used rationally.
Crucially, the letter does not itself cancel the leases. It asks the inspectorate to investigate the documented violations and then submit a formal recommendation to initiate court proceedings for cancellation. The outcome therefore depends on the inspectorate’s assessment and, ultimately, a judicial decision. No court ruling has been reported at this stage.
The cases form part of a broader pattern of scrutiny over agricultural land allocation in Uzbekistan, where plots granted to enterprises for specific farming purposes have in some instances remained unworked while lease agreements remain formally in force.