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Forty-three years after commencing physical sale of farm commodities, the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Vashi near Mumbai is set to go online and sale commodities via electronic orders for delivery in a day or two.
The beginning will be made in the food grain segment. Modalities will be finalised on Saturday.
The move began after the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) issued an advisory late Thursday evening to devise a strategy to reduce the number of entrants into the APMC yard and maintain social distancing to prevent spread of coronavirus. Covid-19 has infected over 120 mandi participants so far,
