In a reversal of recent policy, Georgia announced on July 19th that the government has placed a ban of the ownership of agricultural land by foreigners. Indian nationals settling in Georgia’s wine country, and the foreign privatization of unowned lands used by locals for pasturing and the growing of crops has led to tensions. Some government officials claim that the move will be temporary until all of Georgia’s farmland can be categorized in a system that would grant priority access to adjacent farmland to locals.
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