Chandigarh, May 16 -- The Centre has asked the Punjab government to complete the process of making farmers' unique IDs under its Meri Fasal Mera Byora scheme, further linking these to their Aadhaar number, land records details and bank account numbers at the earliest.

Subsequently, chief secretary KAP Sinha in a meeting with the deputy commissioners of all 23 districts on Wednesday, asked to expedite the digitisation work. However, officials from the state agriculture department revealed that farmers were apprehensive of sharing their details.

The process is part of Centre's Agri Stack programme, which entails linking all farmer details to prevent pilferage of benefit transfer.

The digitisation process will also maintain the exact coor...