Jhalawar : Jhalawar 16 thousand new farmers across the state including the district are being given the opportunity to cultivate opium. Along with this, this time the department has made innovation and made the licensing process online. Under the new opium policy, this time 2716 leases will be given in Jhalawar district. Till now, the Opium Department has issued 2661 leases online in the district under the online process. At the same time, many farmers are also coming, whose lease was earlier in the name of their grandfather and father, but after their death, now it has been transferred by mutual consent. After making it, they are reaching the camp set up by the department, where after giving mutual consent in front of the officials, they are taking the license in the name of one person. At the same time, the leases of 13 farmers who gave less than 4.2 morphine in the district have been cut. Licenses have been issued to 49 people in the camp from 19 to 21 November.
They will get license
In the last year 2023-24, all the opium licensed farmers whose average amount of morphine in their crop is 4.2 per kg or more will get the license to obtain opium gum (Luwai Chirai) through lacing method. At the same time, those farmers who cultivated opium for poppy husk production during the year 2023-24, who presented poppy husk at the weighing center and whose average yield was 900 kg per hectare or more, will also be given opium gum (Luwai Chirai). License is being given. There are 74 such farmers in the district.
license online
The names of eligible cultivators are being uploaded on the CBN website and CBN online portal. For this, farmers themselves will have to go to any e-Mitra and apply online. For this the department will verify it. After making it online through e-Mitra, the application comes to the SI, from there to the SI, after which the final verification is done through the District Opium Officer. After that, information about related messages and mail etc. is coming on the farmer’s mobile number.
