AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION

HOLDINGS.

Prevention of Fragmentation Consolidation of Holdings.

The provisions of the Bombay Prevention of, Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1947, were applied to the district in 1960 and work of consolidation of holdings was started in the same year in Yeotmal tahsil. The scheme aims at mutual exchange of small and scattered fragments of holdings and to make the land holdings as compact as possible. Up to end of March 1963, execution work in respect of nine villages was completed covering an area of 10,787 acres with 581 holdings. This work was temporarily suspended since September 1962, as the Record of Rights was not up-to-date.

The standard areas specified as minimum necessary for profitable cultivation under the Prevention of Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings Act are as follows:—

(i) Dry crop lands—3.0 acres.

(ii) Bagait tari lands—0.5 acres.

All plots of land, less in area than the standard area, are treated as fragments and their transfer except to holders of contiguous plots is prohibited.

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