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The central government might create a mobile application to record all off-mandi transactions done under the new Bill on agricultural trade, a senior official said.
The Bill, called the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, which was tabled in the Lok Sabha by Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday, contains a provision that the Centre may prescribe a system for electronic registration for a trader, modalities of trade transactions and mode of payment of the schedule farmers’ produce in a trade area. A trade area has been defined as an area that is outside regular mandis.
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