For the protection and sustainable use of agricultural land, the Government of Nepal, Provincial Government and Local Level shall, with mutual coordination, perform the following functions:
(a) To encourage or promote to plant crops in the agricultural lands identified under the prevailing law,
(b) To separate or classify by identifying the agricultural lands scientifically,
(c) Not to allow or get the agricultural lands to remain fallow and to be used for the purpose other than that prescribed under the prevailing law regarding the use of land,
(d) Not to allow plotting of the agricultural lands,
(e) To carry out development works in a manner not to be contrary to the National Food Plan referred to in Section 21,
(f) To increase awareness about the use of agricultural lands,
(g) To cut down the grant, facility and support to be provided by the Government for the landowners who do not plant crops without reasonable cause in the lands classified for the purpose of agriculture,
(h) To make provisions for the maximum utilization of fertile lands remained fallow, by promoting cooperative farming, bond farming, contract farming or group farming,