Chhattisgarh - Register a Contract Farming Agreement

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Procedure

A registered Contract Farming purchaser (Sponsor), shall apply to the office of the designated Registering and Agreement Recording committee from the Department of Agricultural Marketing of the jurisdiction within which the produce is to be grown or raised.
Apply In-Person:

1. One can contact their Municipal corporation / municipality/ panchayat / circle office as applicable to obtain the contact information of the concerned office.
2. Link for the office contact details: Link1 please use the district level officer contact details to get the required office contact details AND Panchayat contact link in the given page please select the hyper link against respective state as per requirement for contact details AND online link please select “About Chhattisgarh” menu option and click “The district” sub option to get the next page with list of district. Here select the link against respective district name to reach the respective district portal in new page and click “DIRECTORY > PUBLIC UTILITIES > Municipality / Nagar Panchayat” OR “ABOUT DISTRICT > ADMINISTRATIVE SETUP > Subdivision & …” menu option to get the page for respective contact details.
3. Once the address of the respective office for applying is finalised, go to the respective office and meet the designated department authority.
4. The applicant shall get the advice from the authority to be followed to complete this registration.
5. Collect the draft of agreement for contract farming or write on a plain A4 sheet as advised.
6. Purchaser / sponsor shall approach a lawyer for drafting agreement for contract farming registration.
7. Following link provides details and information required for drafting the agreement deed for contract farming: link
8. The agreement for contract farming should be prepared on a legal stamp paper worth Rs.100/- (Rupees one hundred) or in denomination as required in the law.
9. Once the agreement is ready, both the purchaser, producer shall go to the respective office for registering the agreement along with the member of the contract farming facilitation group at the village panchayat level and their respective witnesses.
10. This agreement will be signed by the respective purchaser, buyer and witnesses. This agreement will be submitted for registering to the designated authority.
11. After receiving the agreement set along with supporting required documents, authorities will check the submitted agreement and document set.
12. Authorities will ensure that the title of land is reflected in the latest record of rights.
13. If all are in place the application will be accepted with applicable fees as appropriate. Please collect the receipt for the fees paid.
14. Authorities will make entries about this application in the manual register for registration of contract farming agreement or electronically using the computer.
15. Authorities will provide record number as acknowledgement. Please keep it safe for future reference.
16. The registration “pro forma” with required details will be signed by registering authority along with the seal.
17. The registered “pro forma” shall be issued instantly or upon notification or delivered as per applicable norms.

Note :

• Government/Administration may constitute a Committee comprising officials from the Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Marketing, Rural Development Cooperation, Fisheries/ Poultry and Allied fields not exceeding five Members headed by an officer as nominated by the Government/ Administration
  
• The produce under contract farming shall be covered under production linked agricultural insurance scheme in operation or such other scheme, as may be prescribed.
  
• Contract farming facilitation group at the village panchayat level for every contract, comprising the members, as may be prescribed, to facilitate in selection of inputs, good agriculture practices, sorting, grading, packing and delivery of produce and such other production and post-production activities of contracted produce.
  
• On reasonable cause, the contracting parties may, in the course, alter or terminate the Contract with mutual consent and due approval of the Authority or the officer authorized in this behalf
  

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Required Documents

• Agreement for contract farming (on a legal stamp paper worth Rs.100/- (rupees one hundred) or in denomination as required in the law)
• Copy of Registration as Contract farming purchaser / sponsor from the respective State Agricultural Marketing Board
• Residence proof of purchaser (ration card / Passport / Aadhaar card / Driving licence)
• Identity proof of purchaser (ration card / Passport / Aadhaar card / Driving licence)
• Proof of address of the institution / organization.
• Firm registered certificate (ROC)
• Partnership deed if it is partnership firm
• Letter head
• Sketch map of the land
• Residence proof of producer (ration card / Passport / Aadhaar card / Driving licence)
• Identity proof of producer (ration card / Passport / Aadhaar card / Driving licence)
• Aadhaar Card of the purchaser, producer and witnesses

Note:

• Apart from the above documents authorities may ask for additional information or documents. Please provide them for processing.

Office Locations & Contacts

Chhattisgarh State Agricultural Marketing Board Headquarters,
Beej Bhawan, GE Road, Telibandha, Raipur.
Phone: 0771-2221223
Email: [email protected]
Contact Link: Link

Eligibility

• A contract farming purchaser / sponsor can be a person, a sole proprietor, a company registered under the Companies Act, a partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act, a Government agency, a co-operative society registered and shall include its administrators, successors, representatives and assignees.
  
• Purchaser should be a citizen of India.
  
• If the purchaser is an enterprise, then it must be a registered organization.
  

Fees

• The charges for registration shall be paid by the purchaser.
• The facilitation fee will be at a nominal rate not exceeding 0.10% – 0.30% according to the value of contracted produce

Validity

• The minimum period of validity of the agreement shall be…
  • Seasonal - one crop season Or
  • Annual - one production cycle of contracted produce
  • Long term (3-5 years) - there may be a services contract for the period as may be mutually agreed by the contracting parties not exceeding five years and renewable thereafter
• In case of multiple produce contracts, the produce with more than one year production cycle may have separate agreements.

Documents to Use

• Please use the following link for creating agreement: link

Sample Documents

Please attach sample completed documents which would help other people who would like to follow this procedure.

Processing Time

• The whole process shall be completed in one day. The “pro forma” copy can be delivered as per notified period.

Related Videos

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
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Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
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sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
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e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M" Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M".

Instructions

• The contract farming producer may enter into contract with one purchaser or with multiple purchasers without any overlap of same produce.
• Do not submit fake documents as a proof
• Avoid spelling mistakes while drafting the deed.
• There may be more than one agreement as per categorization of produce to be grown or raised.
• The agreement shall be prepared in local language clearly understandable to the contract farming producer and shall be in such legally acceptable form containing such particulars and terms and conditions, as may be specified in the rules.

Required Information

• Name of the Purchaser
• Name of the organization
• Address of the organization
• Name of the Producer
• Father/Husbands Name of producer
• Residential Address of Purchaser and producer
• Email ID
• Date of agreement
• Phone number
• Schedule of agricultural produce along with price
• GST Number of the purchaser

Need for the Document

• “Contract farming” means farming by a Contract Farming Producer as specified underwritten agreement with Contract Farming purchaser/sponsor to the effect, that farm produce including livestock or its product shall be purchased by the Contract Farming Sponsor or by duly authorized agent therefore, as specified in the agreement.
• Contract farming is required…
  • To reduce the load on the central & state level procurement system.
  • To increase private sector investment in agriculture.
  • To bring about a market focus in terms of crop selection by Indian farmers.
  • To generate a steady source of income at the individual farmer level.
  • To promote processing & value addition.
  • To generate gainful employment in rural communities, particularly for landless agricultural labour.
  • To flatten as far as possible, any seasonality associated with such employment.
  • To reduce migration from rural to urban areas.
  • To promote rural self-reliance in general by pooling locally available resources & expertise to meet new challenges

Information which might help

• Please visit your known or nearest organization / institution that registered such agreement to know more details.
• The contract farming producer may enter into contract with one purchaser or with multiple purchasers without any overlap of same produce.

Other uses of the Document/Certificate

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

External Links

• Following link provides additional information required for this procedure: link

Others

More information which might help people.