Central Government declared new opium policy 2020-21. The new policy will benefit poppy farmers including Mandsaur, Neemuch.
This time, farmers who give ratios of 4.2 to 5.4 will be able to get a lease of 6 saws. Farmers with a ratio of 5.5 to 5.9 will be eligible for 10 saws leasing, while farmers with ratios of more than 5.9 can get 12 saws. Simultaneously, farmers who are defective in the NDPS Act will also be eligible for the license. This will benefit many farmers of the area.
At the same time, from the three years 2017 to 2019, the farmers who have been entitled to the crop for some reason under the supervision of the Central Narcotics Bureau and have not got it in 2016-17, those farmers will also be eligible for opium cultivation. On the other hand, those farmers who have cultivated poppy in any year from the year 1999-2000 and who were eligible for license in the subsequent year and were found eligible according to the concessions announced after the crop year, but voluntarily for some reason Farmers who have not obtained license and have not cultivated opium poppy for any reason after obtaining the license will also be eligible for cultivation this time. The new poppy policy has made the poppy farmers happy.
Mandsaur MP Sudhir Gupta said that Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur have declared policies in the interest of farmers.
The new poppy policy will benefit many farmers in the region. The new policy has been formulated keeping in mind the suggestions of the farmers. MP Gupta thanked the Union Minister for the new policy.