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Mapping APMC reforms over the decades in the backdrop of farmers' protest

80% of states have had some sort of reforms to their APMCs, but most of these were partial, on pick-and-choose basis and defeated the goal of creating a uniform trade environment across the country

A view of APMC vegetable market as farmers' protest enters fourth day, in Navi Mumbai on Monday, June 04, 2018. (
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Sanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi
Amid the ongoing farmers' protest that has blocked Delhi borders, a debate rages about the APMC reforms as advocated by previous governments and the current set of acts, and the differences and similarities between the two.

A few days back, the ruling BJP released a set of letters that then Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had written to state chief ministers urging them to reform their APMC acts and encourage private participation in them.

Pawar responded by saying that he had indeed called for reforming the APMCs, but had never wanted regulated mandis to be scrapped, and was, in fact, in

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