Agri reform agenda: Yogi government to amend UP APMC Act

Espousing major agri reform agenda, the Yogi Adityanath government is gearing up to amend Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, 1964 for providing greater options to the state farmers to sell farm output at better prices.

The state also favours private investment in the vast state agricultural marketing set up for maximising farmers’ income and weeding our middlemen.

The amendment would be an epoch-making agri sector reform, one which has been long overdue, although the proposed amendment to the APMC Act has been cited as an imperative for a large agricultural producer like UP. Several state governments have already amended