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Who may buy agricultural land, what the ceiling limits are, and how tenancy and revenue codes differ across Rajasthan, Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand, Himachal and Punjab.
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Non-farmers can buy agricultural land in most states — Himachal Pradesh is the exception. See the state-by-state rules and the risky workarounds to avoid.
Rajasthan's tenancy, ceiling and Colonisation Act rules, border-district facts, CLU process and bigha quirks — the full state-specific guide to buying agricultural land.
Goa restricts transfer of paddy land to non-agriculturists under a 2023 Act, and conversion now links to it.
Delhi farmland law explained from the Land Reforms Act proposal and the Ceiling Act, with the gaps flagged.
Gram sabha, shamilat, nazul and bhoodan land are usually not freely saleable, and a registered deed does not fix that.
Uttarakhand's 2025 land law amendment is reported to bar outsiders from farmland in 11 districts, but we could not read the Gazette text.
States test buyers by residence, by farmer status or by neither, and we mark what could and could not be confirmed.
Maharashtra farmland law from the Tenancy Act amendments, with section 63 text marked as not confirmed.
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