The Chhattisgarh government announced that registration will be mandatory to benefit from its flagship Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana.

The new order will be effective from the current Kharif season 2021.

According to the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture-development”>AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT, Farmers Welfare and Bio Technology Department, an online registration has to be done from June 1 to September 30 to get the governments assistance in the form of input subsidy.

An input subsidy of Rs 9,000 per acre is provided to promote agricultural production.

Landholder farmers of all categories and all forest title holders will be eligible to get the benefits but they must be producers of crops and their farm land must not be idle, the new order said.

Under the scheme, the farmers registered on portal will be paid by Direct Bank Transfer (DBT) through the nodal banks.