The Central Government announced the annual licensing policy for opium crop of 2014-15, according to which cultivators of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh will be eligible for licence.
All cultivators who have tendered an average yield of not less than 56 kg/hectare in MP in last fiscal will be eligible for licence, an official statement said here.The GoI on Wednesday declared its new opium policy for the crop year 2014-15. According to the new policy the average opium production has been kept at 56 kilogram per hectare in Madhya Pradesh that is two kilogram lower than last year.
Notably, for the opium crop year 2013-14 the average opium production was kept at 58 kilogram per hectare for the state.Government of India (GoI) Finance Ministry’s revenue department New Delhi while issuing notification for the crop year 2014-15 announced its opium policy.
The central government announced that those farmers who provided average yield of 56 to 65 kilogram in the year 2013-14 would be provided pattas of 15 ari while those who would give an average yield of above 65 kg would be provided 20 patta of ari land, hence the government has increased the cultivating area of the farmers.
Those farmers who would provide average yield of 58 kg in 2014-15 would be given patta of 20 ari in the year 2015-16.This year about two thousand opium farmers of 800 villages would do farming of opium on three thousand hectare of land while a total of over fifty thousand farmers would do farming of opium in the country.