29. Power to enter into agreement for purchase of foodgrains after harvest.
(1)A Food Corporation may enter into agreement with any grower of foodcrops for the purchase of foodgrains after the harvest of such crops and any such agreement may provide that any sum payable by the Corporation to the grower under such agreement shall be payable to any scheduled bank or other financing agency nominated by the grower in this behalf to such extent as may be specified in the agreement.(2)The scheduled [bank] [For the names of the such Banks see Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934] or other financing agency referred to in sub-section (1) may, on the basis of any agreement referred to in that sub-section, lend money to a grower of foodcrops who has entered into such agreement.
