Amarinder Vs Goyal On Direct Payments To Farmers: In No Possible Scenario Do The Arhatiyas Gain Anything by Aashish Chandorkar - Apr 6, 2021 11:19 AM Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry & CAFPD Piyush Goyal. Snapshot With the central government insisting on the full adoption of the PFMS for the upcoming rabi season, the Punjab government will have to choose between finally agreeing to digital payments to farmers or risk getting a lower share of the procurement. On 31 January 2019, Late Ramvilas Paswan, then then Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (CAFPD), wrote to Captain Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab, urging him to adopt the online system for procurement and payment to farmers for crops procured under the Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime.