The regulatory environment for land reclamation and irrigated agriculture is understood as a body of legal instruments aimed at efficient use and protection of irrigated land. Those legal instruments, first of all, constitute a part of land and water legislation.

Land reclamation (definitions):

1) A set of measures for improvement of land and its fertility // Short geographical dictionary

2) Thorough improvement of bad hydrological, soil and other characteristics of land for most effective use of the latter …// Contemporary encyclopedia

Irrigated agriculture (definitions):

1) Farming, where artificial irrigation is applied // Financial dictionary

2) Growing crops under irrigation. One of most intensive types of farming in desert, semi-desert and arid zones, as well as in areas that suffer from lack of water in some periods of growing season // Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Sources (in Russian):
Melioratsia / Slovari and entziklopedii na Akademike
Oroshayemoye zemledeliye
Oroshayemoye zemledeliye / Slovari and entziklopedii na Akademike

Author: Rysbekov Yu. Kh., SIC ICWC