Tobacco licence validity extended

The government Tuesday extended the validity of registration certificate or licence of tobacco farmers to three years from one year at present.

This increase in the licence period from one to three years will help around 83,500 farmers of the country covering around 91,000 barns in renewing their licences/ registrations across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana and Odisha, the commerce and industry ministry said. "This measure will save the time of the farmers' for renewing their registrations/licences every year to plan their logistics and finance to take up cultivation for three years ahead," the ministry said in a statement, adding that the measure is a part of ease of doing business to reduce the burden of mandatory yearly renewal of registration. -Our Bureau