Patna: Vijay Kumar Sinha said 74,434 farmers have been registered in Bihar since the second phase of the state’s farmer registry campaign began on May 12, and asked officials to speed up the process to meet registration targets.
Speaking before leaving for a regional agriculture conference in Bhubaneswar, Sinha said officials from the state’s agriculture department and the land and revenue department must work together to ensure the campaign progresses more quickly.
Registration Progress
Sinha said Bihar had generated farmer IDs for more than 48.57 lakh farmers so far under the statewide registry initiative.
According to the minister, 10.14 lakh farmers were registered during the first mission-mode phase held between January 6 and January 11. A further 7.15 lakh were added in the second phase from January 17 to January 21, while 10.37 lakh registrations were completed in the third phase between February 2 and February 11.
The latest campaign phase began on May 12. Sinha said the government aims to register 86.36 lakh farmers by the end of June.
Push For Department Coordination
The minister said land record correction and mutation remain central to the registration process, and called for stronger cooperation between the two departments.
He said the farmer registry would not gather pace unless land records were updated and ownership details regularised. He added that the newly launched Sahyog Shivir programme, organised every Tuesday, would prioritise land record correction and mutation cases involving farmers.
Sinha said the camps are expected to support the wider registry effort by addressing pending land-related documentation issues across the state.
Subsidy Delivery And Transparency
The minister said the registry would improve access to subsidy schemes funded by both the Union and state governments, including PM-KISAN and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana.
He said the registry would increase transparency in subsidy distribution, reduce corruption, and help lower the number of land disputes and related court cases.
Sinha added that once the registration target is met, Bihar could receive more than Rs 1,000 crore in financial assistance from the Union government for agriculture-linked schemes.
Regional Agriculture Meeting
Sinha is attending the regional conference on agriculture in Odisha at the invitation of Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
The meeting is expected to bring together agriculture ministers and senior officials from Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal to review regional agricultural priorities.
