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Maharashtra’s agricultural economy may be entering an important new phase. With the Maharashtra Agricultural Land Leasing Act, 2017, published as Maharashtra Act No. XXVIII of 2023, and the Maharashtra Agricultural Land Leasing Rules, 2024 notified on 2 June 2025, the State has created a legal framework that seeks to bring agricultural leasing out of informality and into a transparent, rights-based system.
For decades, many landowners hesitated to lease out agricultural land because older tenancy concerns created a fear that temporary possession might later become a claim to permanent rights. That hesitation encouraged informal, undocumented arrangements, left many parcels underutilized, and prevented actual cultivators from accessing formal credit, crop insurance, and other state-backed benefits.
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