The Ministry of Land and Environment has over the last 12 months taken back nearly 350,000 hectares of land which had been granted to users who then allowed it to lie idle. "In the period under review, 658 plots were inspected, corresponding to an area of 373,737 hectares, of which 348,535 will revert to the State, due to non-compliance with the agreed land use plans," said the Minister of Land and Environment, Ivete Maibaze.