Contract farming in FCV tobacco on the cards
The Hindu
It can ensure level playing field , says official
The Union government is actively considering introducing contract farming to add buoyancy in trading of Flue Cured Virginia Tobacco.
The proposal to introduce contract farming has begun to gain traction after the high-level meeting held at the Tobacco Board recently, in which Secretary of Commerce B.V.R. Subrahmanyam and Joint Secretary Divakar Nath Mishra were present. Contract farming is also one of the features of the new Farm Laws.
“Contract farming will end the monopoly of a single largest player and ensure a level playing field. Foreign Direct Investment in tobacco trade in India will certainly open up the market,” said a senior official.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.