Section 3: Power to require cultivators to grow specified crops

- (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, custom or practice for the time being, the State Government, if satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest to increase the production of fodder, food or any other commodity in any local area, may, by an order published in the 1Official Gazette, direct that in such area every cultivator shall grow over a specified proportion of his holding such crop or crops as may be specified in such order, and different crops may be so specified for different parts of that area: Provided that no such direction shall be made unless the State Government has notified its intention of doing so and has taken into consideration any objections thereto that may be received within a month of such notification. (2) So long as an order issued under Section (1) is in force, no cultivator shall grow in his holding any crop other than the one which he is directed by such order to grow.