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Batai (Crop-Share) Agreement

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Stamp duty: On the footing that the Term of this Agreement does not exceed eleven months, this Agreement is prepared on plain paper, on the same footing the Agricultural Land Lease (Theka/Thekanama) template adopts for its own cash lease.
Registration: Deliberately NOT presented for registration, on the footing set out in clause 13 of this Agreement: the Term is kept to eleven months or less, so that this arrangement is not, on the plainer reading, "for any term exceeding one year" within s.17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908.
Witnesses: Not legally required for an unregistered arrangement of this kind, but two witnesses are customary in village practice and are provided for below.

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Also called

Batai Nama
Batai Karar
Crop Sharing Agreement
Adhbatai Agreement
बटाई नामा
बंटाई अनुबंध
ਬਟਾਈ ਨਾਮਾ
ਸਾਂਝੀ ਖੇਤੀ ਇਕਰਾਰਨਾਮਾ

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An agricultural land arrangement between a landowner (or a tenant entitled to sub-let) and a cultivator, where the return to the landowner is a SHARE of the crop actually harvested — commonly half (adhbatai) or another agreed fraction — rather than a fixed cash rent. Records the land, the share and how the crop is divided, who bears which input cost (seed, fertiliser, irrigation, labour), the crop season the Term covers, and, deliberately, that the arrangement creates no continuing right for the cultivator once the Term ends.

This is a genuinely different arrangement from a theka (cash-rent lease), not the same document with the rent field changed. A share of an uncertain future crop is not a fixed sum: it changes how the girdawari entry should read, how the parties account for their respective shares at harvest, and how each side's share is treated for income tax under section 10(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 — a batai share retained by, or paid in kind to, the landowner is not automatically taxed the same way a fixed cash theka rent is, and this template does not resolve that question; see lawyerShouldCheck. Kept to a Term of eleven months or less, on the same footing this library's own Agricultural Land Lease (Theka/Thekanama) template uses for its cash lease, for the same honestly-stated and unresolved reason — see clause 13. Chandigarh has almost no agricultural land left outside its retained revenue villages, and this agreement serves only land in those villages, not a sector plot. Not for: a fixed cash-rent lease — that is an Agricultural Land Lease (Theka/Thekanama), a different document in this library, not this Agreement; a lease intended to run for years and to be registered, which this template does not attempt; land inside a Chandigarh Estate Office sector; or an arrangement where the cultivator will build a permanent structure or reside on the land.

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What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.

Stamp duty

On the footing that the Term of this Agreement does not exceed eleven months, this Agreement is prepared on plain paper, on the same footing the Agricultural Land Lease (Theka/Thekanama) template adopts for its own cash lease. This drafter could not verify one current, Punjab-specific stamp duty article and rate for a batai/crop-share agreement with confidence, and Chandigarh's own schedule was not separately confirmed for this class of instrument either — and a crop-share arrangement, having no fixed rent figure, may not even fit neatly within a stamp article drafted around a stated annual rent. If a party is asked at any office to produce a stamped instrument, ask which article is said to apply before buying stamp paper on the strength of the request alone.

Registration

Deliberately NOT presented for registration, on the footing set out in clause 13 of this Agreement: the Term is kept to eleven months or less, so that this arrangement is not, on the plainer reading, "for any term exceeding one year" within s.17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908. Whether the SECOND limb of that provision — a lease "reserving a yearly rent" — has any application at all to an arrangement that reserves a SHARE of the crop rather than any rent figure, in cash or in kind, is a genuinely open question this Agreement does not resolve; see clause 13.2. s.117 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 takes a lease for agricultural purposes outside the whole of Chapter V of that Act, so no s.106 notice-to-quit and no s.107 registration requirement under THAT Act ever governs a batai — but that exclusion is about the Transfer of Property Act, not about the separate Registration Act, 1908, and clause 13.3 keeps the two questions apart.

Notarisation

Not required. Either party may choose to have the Agreement notarised for extra evidentiary comfort.

Witnesses

Not legally required for an unregistered arrangement of this kind, but two witnesses are customary in village practice and are provided for below.

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BATAI (CROP-SHARE) AGREEMENT

This Batai (Crop-Share) Agreement (this "Agreement") is made at Village Rurki on 3 April 2026.

BETWEEN

Kartar Singh, of Village Rurki, Tehsil Samrala, District Ludhiana 141114, mobile 98140-00000 (the "Landowner", which expression includes the co-owners named below, if any);

AND

Nirmal Singh, of Village Rurki, Tehsil Samrala, District Ludhiana 141114, mobile 98760-00000 (the "Cultivator").

The Landowner and the Cultivator are each a "Party" and together the "Parties".

RECITALS

A. The land described in Schedule I (the "Land") is agricultural land situated at Village Village Rurki, Tehsil Samrala, District Ludhiana. The Landowner is the absolute owner of the Land.

B. The Landowner has agreed to let the Cultivator cultivate the Land on batai — a share of the actual crop, not a fixed cash rent — for the Term and on the share ratio stated below.

C. This arrangement is for agricultural purposes. s.117 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 accordingly takes it outside Chapter V of that Act, and clause 13 of this Agreement explains, honestly and without overstating the position, why the Parties do not present it for registration.

NOW THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES as follows.

1. GRANT AND TERM

1.1 The Landowner permits, and the Cultivator undertakes, cultivation of the Land on batai for a Term commencing on 1 April 2026 and expiring on 28 February 2027 (the "Term"), covering One full agricultural year, covering both the rabi and kharif harvests.

1.2 This Agreement gives the Cultivator the right to cultivate and possess the Land for the Term for the purpose stated in clause 4, and no more.

2. THE CROP AND THE SHARE

2.1 The crop(s) to be grown are: Wheat in the rabi season; paddy in the kharif season.

2.2 The crop, when harvested, is shared between the Parties as: Equal share, one half each (adhbatai)

2.3 The harvested crop is divided in kind, by actual weight or measure, in the presence of both parties (or their representatives) at the threshing floor

2.4 By-products (straw/bhusa, fodder and similar): Shared in the same ratio as the main crop.

2.5 Neither Party warrants the size of the crop; the share described above is of whatever crop is actually harvested, and neither Party is liable to the other for a poor harvest caused by weather, pest or other cause beyond that Party's control.

3. THE GIRDAWARI ENTRY

3.1 The Cultivator's possession of the Land during the Term is under this Agreement and no otherwise. The Landowner may apply to have, and the Cultivator shall not object to, the khasra girdawari for the Land recorded during the Term as possession under batai from the Landowner, and not as an entry showing the Cultivator as an owner-cultivator or as any tenant other than under this Agreement.

4. PERMITTED USE, CROPS AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE

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Does the Batai (Crop-Share) Agreement need witnesses?

Not legally required for an unregistered arrangement of this kind, but two witnesses are customary in village practice and are provided for below.

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