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The Punjab Contract Farming Act, 2013

The Punjab Contract Farming Act, 2013

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The Punjab Contract Farming Act, 2013, establishes a legal framework for agreements between agricultural producers (farmers) and buyers. It ensures that contracts for crops are transparent, registered, and fair. The Act protects farmers by strictly prohibiting the transfer of land ownership or the creation of permanent structures by buyers on the farmer's land. It mandates timely payments for produce, with legal mechanisms for recovery if payments are delayed. Furthermore, it creates the Punjab Contract Farming Commission to oversee these agreements, resolve disputes, and ensure compliance, providing a structured environment for contract farming that balances commercial interests with the protection of agricultural producers.

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  1. 1. Short title and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Notification of exercising control over purchase, sale, storage and processing of agricultural produce to be covered under the Contract farming
  4. 4. Procedure and form of Contract farming agreement
  5. 5. The Collector shall resolve the dispute in a summary manner within a period of thirty days after giving the parties a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
  6. 6. Recovery of dues from any party to the agreement
  7. 7. Seizure of agricultural produce
  8. 8. Support to the production
  9. 9. No title, rights, ownership or possession shall be transferred or alienated or vest in the buyer etc
  10. 10. Buyer prohibited from raising permanent structure on Producers' land
  11. 11. Objective of agreement
  12. 12. Period of agreement
  13. 13. Recovery of loans and advances given by the buyer to the producer
  14. 14. Submission of annual or periodical reports of accounts
  15. 15. Constitution of the Commission
  16. 16. Composition of the Commission
  17. 17. Powers of the Chief Commissioner
  18. 18. Term of office and conditions of service of the Chief Commissioner and the Commissioners
  19. 19. The salaries, allowances and conditions of service of the officers and other employees so appointed shall be such as may be prescribed.
  20. 20. Powers and functions of the Commission
  21. 21. Action taken by the State Government on the recommendations of the Commission
  22. 22. The State Government shall cause a copy of this report to be laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly of the State.
  23. 23. Power of State Government to amend the Schedule
  24. 24. Appeal
  25. 25. Penalities
  26. 26. Bar of jurisdiction of Courts
  27. 27. Powers to make rules
  28. 28. Powers to make bye-laws
  29. 29. Bar of suit in absence of notice
  30. 30. Power of the State Government to give direction
  31. 31. The Chief Commissioner and the Commissioners or employees of the Commission to be public servants
  32. 32. Protection of action taken in good faith
  33. 33. Power to remove difficulties
  34. I. Schedule I
  35. II. Schedule II

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