Farm gate procurement among slew of reforms in MP as state amends Mandi Act

State joins other domains to reform farm marketing even as Centre adds 200 new mandis to e-NaM; five more states join 'One-Nation-One-Ration Card' scheme

Madhya Pradesh has become the latest state to announce large-scale reforms in its Agriculture Produce Marketing Act (APMC) to enable direct procurement from farmers, single license for trading in any mandi within the state, designating warehouses and silos as new private mandis and also facilitating the setting up of private mandis.

The steps have been announced to help cultivators sell their produce directly without coming to mandis and outside the regulated APMCs. The ongoing Covid-19 crisis has hastened these measures.

The state government has promulgated an ordinance called the Madhya Pradesh Krishi Upaj Mandi (amendment) Act, 2020, which will facilitate direct procurement