for, Mr. Rajesh Menon :
Consider this, in lieu of your query :
1. The district collector (govt) on a complaint or suo-motto may initiate an inquiry on the farmers earlier status of the agricultural land buyer (individual). IF violations of law's are detected, the collector is empowered to seize the land and restore or re-distribute, as per the provisions of various agricultural Acts.
2. Pvt. Ltd. has to put up a request to the collector alongwith all the relevant documents and get his approval for buying agricultural land. Here the type of agricultural land and the present farmer interest's plus other parameters will have to be considered by the competent authority who may grant permission subject to certain compliance orders.
(Other parameters already explained in detail, in earlier above posts)
3. Technically, the farmer subsidies, farmer credit cards, loans, free seeds, free bulls, free houses/free borewells, reduced electricity costs and other benefits are given to the Farmer community, for his sustenance or say support for the farmer family, which in turn sustains millions of other allied people. A farmer can commit suicide and his family would automatically be entitled to govt. grants. India is defined by virtue of its farmers and companies are nowhere is the picture, which may foldup overnight.
4. A Company, being an Non-Person, CAN NEVER be defined as a FARMER or an AGRICULTURIST, hence a farming loan or free seeds or free bulls/cows/goats/houses etc.... are not the purposes or the intentions of the Govt. The Govt. (as yet) has no subsidy policies for corporate bodies doing agricultural business, which actually does not benefit the farmers sustenance. Unfortunately, a company cannot commit suicide. When a company does agricultural work, it deprives and restricts the farmer privilege's in several ways.
5. However, there are several companies claiming such farmer benefits & subsidies on the pretex of doing sole-agricultural activities. So far so good, till the CAG or a JPC gets behind it and starts the spark in the woods.
6. IF one wishes to satisfy his agricultural instinct's & urges,then an non-farmer may always procure on long-term lease any "excess or barren land or non-cultivate'able" from non-tribal farmers, via a stamp duty paid registered lease deed (worth for anything from one year to 99 years) AND THEN carry out all types of Horticulture (including mango), or Floriculture or exotic vegetables or whatever.
Keep Smiling .... Hemant Agarwal
