Big news for Farmers who are doing farming on lease lands, know new decision by Centre
New Delhi, April 13, 2021: In a new decision which will provide huge benefits to farmers to Punjab, the Centre Government has decided to direct transfer payment of produce to those farmer who are cultivating land taken on lease.
In a tweet, Union Food Minister Piyush Goyal disclosed that now benefit of direct transfer of payment of produce in bank accounts will also be available to farmer who are doing farming on land taken on lease. He said that now after completer transparency effecting in system these farmers cannot be mislead and they will get complete payment of their produce in their bank accounts.
It is worth mentioning here that more than 40 percent farming in Punjab done on lease lands. These farm lands are mostly owned by NRI settled abroad. Instead of selling their agriculture lands these NRIs prefer to give them on lease.