Resolution No. 73/T of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation regulating and defining agricultural production seasons. Country/Territory Syrian Arab Republic Document type Regulation Date 2005 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Official Gazette No. 40, 5 October 2005, 12 pp. Subject Agricultural & rural development Keyword Agricultural land Breeders' rights/farmers' rights Institution Policy/planning Public land Authorization/permit Offences/penalties Intellectual property rights/patents Geographical area Asia, Mediterranean, Middle East, Near East and North Africa, Western Asia Abstract This Resolution is composed of 25 articles and 1 Annex. Article 1 contains terms and definitions. Article 2 regulates the cultivation of the following: crops and vegetables in irrigated and un-irrigated lands; fruit-trees; greenhouses; and protected cultivations. Article 3 defines agricultural seasons for areas intended for the cultivation of crops and vegetables according to agricultural plans of each zone. Investors may contract with the public sector or joint sector for the cultivation of crops in allowed and defined areas (art. 6). Farmer's cooperatives have the right for a special agricultural plan (art. 7). Agricultural plans and seasons start from the beginning of August to the end of March of each year (art. 10). Applications for agricultural planning shall be presented within the fixed period according to the attached form (art. 11). Articles 13 and 14 deal with the Agricultural Plan Document. The Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, according to the proposal of the General Authority for Agricultural Scientific Research, shall define cultivation periods of crops, quantity of seeds, fertilizers, nursery plants, etc. (art. 16). Articles 17 and 18 contain offences and penalties. Articles 21 and 22 establish the Productive Plan Fund and the Plan Committee. Annex 1 contains the application form for regulating an agricultural Season. Full text Arabic