Bhubaneswar: While the net registration of farmers for procurement of Rabi paddy has begun, some modifications within the tips for the crop procurement from sharecroppers have raised critical considerations.
As per the State authorities’s registration tips for the procurement of paddy for Rabi crop season, which is scheduled to begin from May 1, a sharecropper is now required to acquire consent letter from the landholder and deposit it together with the Registration Form.
The sharecroppers may also need to submit cellular quantity and a replica of the Aadhaar card of their landowner throughout registration to promote their paddy. “There is no other way for a sharecropper to apply for registration except by the way of submission of landowner’s consent,” learn the launched tips.
However, throughout paddy procurement for the Kharif crop season, the sharecroppers had been allowed to register even once they had been unable to indicate consent letters from landowners or certificates from Sarpanches. They had been additionally permitted to promote their marketable surplus topic to verification of their claims by district agriculture officers or Tehsildars.
Terming the transfer of the Odisha authorities as unlucky, Congress MLA Santosh Singh Saluja mentioned, “Under such circumstances (guidelines) the sharecroppers can no longer sell their paddy during the Rabi crop season. We condem such a move of the State government.”
Leader of Opposition Pradipta Naik mentioned registration for a similar is finished within the identify of the land homeowners and there’s no different choice.
Speaking on the difficulty, BJD MLA Pratap Deb mentioned that with out particulars of landowners, it’s troublesome to establish one as a sharecropper. “Only if a land owner gives in written, one can be proved as a sharecropper,” he added.
It is value mentioning that there isn’t any particular norms for the sharecroppers within the State. Though the Odisha authorities has taken a number of initiatives up to now to convey a legislation on this regard, the efforts have yielded little or no fruits leaving the part of producers within the State endure and disadvantaged of a number of advantages.