Changes in APMC Act Will Help Farmers To Get Better Prices On Friday June 23, 2020 Union govt. introduced amendments to the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act through an ordinance and said farmers have been given opportunities to...
Changes in APMC Act Will Help Farmers To Get Better Prices
On Friday June 23, 2020 Union govt. introduced amendments
to the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act through an ordinance
and said farmers have been given opportunities to sell their commodities
anywhere to enable them to get better prices.
While speaking on the ordinance, Chief Minister of
Karnataka Mr. Yediyurappa told that Changes to the Act have not diluted the
functioning of APMCs and farmers have every right to sell their produce in the
APMC markets or outside.
Farmers have been given the freedom of “my crop, my right” and nobody has
power to question it. “99% of farmers will welcome changes in the Act”, the
Chief Minister told presspersons here.
Mr. Yediyurappa said agricultural marketing has been
opened to the private sector more than a decade ago and several MNCs have been
involved in trading of commodities. A few years ago, the State had rolled out
Unified Markets Platform (UMP) covering all APMCs and online trading was going
on. Changes in the Act would benefit farmers and enable “doubling income”, a
vision envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “No injustice to farmers”,
said Mr. Yediyurappa.
The Chief Minister said that he had spoken to
Opposition leaders and representatives of farmers and cleared all their doubts
about changes in the Act.
