The Ministry of Finance (MoF) on October 13, 2022, issued a notification to amend Notification No. 3/2022-Narcotics Control-1 dated September 28, 2022, which is related to the general conditions for the grant of the license for the cultivation of opium poppy to produce Poppy Straw from which no juice is extracted through lancing.
The following has been amended:
• After para 2 (ix), para 2(x) has been inserted:
Cultivator who is nominated by deceased eligible cultivator in column No. 11 in Form No. 1 (see rule 7) for the crop year 2021-22.
• In para 6.i. for “morphine content of opium”, read “morphine content of un-lanced poppy straw”
• In para 8. vi. for “cultivators may be allowed to store Opium”, read “cultivators may be allowed to store “un-lanced poppy capsule along with straw”.
[Notification No. G.S.R. 775(E)]
