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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING REFORMS IN INDIA: INTERVENTION OF MODEL APMC ACT-2003 .
ISSN: 2277 - 7601
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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING REFORMS IN INDIA: INTERVENTION OF MODEL APMC ACT-2003 .
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Publisher: Yashvantrao Chavan Arts And Science Mahavidyalaya Mangrulp..
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Abstract
Organized marketing of agricultural commodities is being promoted in the country through a network of regulated markets. Most of the Statesand Union Territories have enacted legislations (the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee [APMC] Act) to provide for regulation ofagricultural produce markets. Seventeen States/ UTs have amended their APMC Acts and the remaining are in the process of doing so. Thereare 7157 regulated markets in the country as on 31March 2010. The country has 21,221 rural periodical markets, about 15 per cent of whichfunction under the ambit of regulation. The advent of regulated markets has helped mitigate the market handicaps of producers/ sellers atwholesale assembling level. Internet connectivity is being provided to important agricultural markets in the country to establish a nationwideinformation network for speedy collection of prices and market-related information. Presently, wholesale prices of 300 commo...
