MANU/REVU/0079/2021

Ministry : Ministry of Finance

Department/Board : Revenue

Notification No. : GSR727(E)

Date of Notification : 11.10.2021

Date of Publication : 11.10.2021

Industry: Finance

Central Government hereby notifies the general conditions for grant of license specified below for cultivation of opium poppy on account of the Central Government

No. 01/2021-Narcotics Control-1

G.S.R.727(E).--In pursuance of rule 8 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Rules, 1985, the Central Government hereby notifies the general conditions for grant of license specified below for cultivation of opium poppy on account of the Central Government during the Opium Crop Year Commencing on the 1st day of October, 2021 and ending with the 30th day of September, 2022.

1. Place of Cultivation.--

Opium poppy cultivation may be licensed in any tract as may be notified in this behalf by the Central Government.

2. Eligibility for Cultivation.--

Subject to clauses 3 and 7 of this notification, the following shall be eligible for a license to cultivate opium poppy:

(i) Cultivators who had cultivated opium poppy during the crop year 2020-21 and tendered an average yield of Morphine (MQY-M) not less than 4.2 kg per hectare.

Note-Average qualifying yield of Morphine in opium tendered in kilograms per hectare will be termed as Minimum Qualifying Yield (MQY-M) in the notification hereinafter.

(ii) Cultivators who ploughed back their entire poppy crop cultivated during the crop year, 2018-19, 2019-20 & 2020-21 under the supervision of the Central Bureau of Narcotics in accordance with the provisions in this re........