KARNATAKA STATE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING BOARD.

1.

2.
3.

Name of Act, Rules and Byelaws

under which the marketing of
Agricultural produce is regulated and
infrastructure is developed
Agricultural Produce (the definition
as per Act)
Scheduled items
I) No. of Notified items in the schedule

Act: KAPM (R & D) 1966

Rules: KAPM (R & D)
By Laws :

II) List of notified items in the schedule

I. Animal Husbandry
Sr. No.
English Name
1.
Cattle
2.
Goats
3.
Sheep
II. Fibres
1.
Cotton (Ginned and Un-ginned)
III. Flower
All Flower
IV. Food Crops
1.
Bajra
2.
Jau
3.
Jowar
4.
Kambu
5.
Maize
6.
Navane
7.
Paddy
8.
Ragi
9.
Rice
10.
Save
11.
Wheat
V. Forest Prioduce
1.
Antwala
2.
Bamboo
3.
Canes
4.
Hippe Seeds
5.
Honge Seeds
6.
Neem Seeds
7.
Soap Nuts
8.
Tamarind
9.
Tamarind Seeds
VI. Fruits
1.
Apple
2.
Banana
3.
Borehannu
4.
Citrus Fruits
5.
Chakkothaihannu
6.
Guava

Agricultural Produce means the produce or goods

specified In the Schedule
112 Agricultural Commodities

7.
Grapes
8.
Jack Fruit
9.
Jamun
10.
Lemon
11.
Kharbuja
12.
Mango
13.
Mosumbi
14.
Marasebu
15.
Pine apple
16.
Pappaya
17.
Pamogranate
18.
Sapota
19.
Siddota
20.
Orange
21.
Watermelon
VII. Oil Seed
1.
Groundnut (Shelled and Unshelled)
2.
Castor Seeds
3.
Cotton Seeds
4.
Linseed
5.
Mustard
6.
Niger Seeds
7.
Safflower
8.
Seasamum
9.
Sunflower Seeds
10.
Soyabean
VIII. Plantation Crops and Spices
1.
Arecanut
2.
Cashewnut
3.
Chillies (Dry)
4.
Coconut
5.
Copra
6.
Corriander
7.
Garlic
8.
Ginger
9.
Methi
10.
Pepper
11.
Turmeric
IX. Pulses
1.
Alsande (Cowpea) (Whole & Split)
2.
Avare (Whole & Split)
3.
Bengalgram (Whole & Split)
4.
Blackgram (Whole & Split)
5.
Bullar (Whole & Split)
6.
Greengram (Whole & Split)
7.
Horse Gram
8.
Lakh (Whole & Split)
9.
Matki (Whole & Split)
10.
Masoor (Whole & Split)
11.
Peas
12.
Tur (Whole & Split)
13.
Moath (Whole & Split)

4.
5.

6.

X. Vegetables
1.
All vegetables
[except Gherkin (including leafy)]
2.
Goourds
3.
Green Chillies
4.
Onion
5.
Potato
6.
Suvarnagadde
7.
Sweet Potato
8.
Tomato
XI. Wood
1.
Beete (Rose)
2.
Bilwala
3.
Firewood
4.
Ganjan
5.
Hadga
6.
Haldi
7.
Hanimattal
8.
Honne
9.
Iyani
10.
Jacktree
11.
Jamba
12.
Kalan
13.
Kindal
14.
Mango
15.
Mathi
16.
Nandi
17.
Rampatre
18.
Teak
19.
White Cedar
20.
Silver Oak
21.
Eucalyptus
XII. Other Products
1.
Betal leaves
2.
Jaggery
3.
Seegu
4.
Dry grapes
Number of Notified market areas/
146
APMCs in the state
List of Notified market areas/APMCs S. No. Division
Main Market
1.
Bangalore
38
in the State
2.
Mysore
39
3.
Belgaum
43
4.
Gulbarga
26
TOTAL
146
Number of
I) Principal market Yards
146

II) Sub market yards

353

Sub Market
93
64
126
70
353

III) Other kind of market Yards, may be 742 (Rural Markets)

seasonal (not covered at I & II)

7.

IV) Unregulated Markets

Constitution of the Board
I) Name of the Board

II) Chairman/Vice Chairman

Members (Category wise detail)

8.

- Nil Karnataka State Agricultural Marketing Board

and a) The Honble Minister for Agricul. Marketing of the State

is ex-Officio Chairman of the Board
b) The Board shall elect a Vice-Chairman from among the
elected members of the Board
c) One person from each revenue district of the State who
shall be a Chairman of a market committee in the district
elected in the prescribed manner by an electorate consisting
of the Chairman of all market committees in such district.

III) Whether elected or nominated

(Detailed Procedure)
Constitution of APMCs
I) Chairman, Vice Chairman and
members (Category wise detail)

As above
a) The first committee shall be Nominated by State Govt. the
Period of the office shall be two Years which may be
extended By another 2 years.
Second & subsequent market committee shall be constituted
by following the Process of election to the Market
Committee. The constitution of the Market Committee
1.
Farmers
11
2.
Traders
1
3.
Co-op Marketing Society
1
4.
Co-op Marketing Processing 1
Society
5.
Nomination by Govt.
3
6.
Official Nominee
1
Total
18
b) Eleven members shall be persons elected by the
agriculturists in the market area of whom one shall be a
women, one shall be a person belonging to the Scheduled
Castes, one shall be a persons belonging to Scheduled Tribes
and two persons belonging to the Backward Classes, out of
which one shall be from persons falling under Category A
and one shall be from Persons falling under category B
One member shall be a person elected By the commission
agents and traders other than retail traders in the market
Area. One member shall be Representative of Co-operative
Marketing Societies carrying on Business in notified Agri.
produce within the market area. One member shall be a
representative of Agri. Co-op processing Societies carrying
on Business in notified agril. Produce with in the market

area. One shall be an officer not below the rank of the

secretary of the connected market committee nominated by
the Director of Agril. Marketing who does not have voting
rights. Three members shall be persons nominated by the
State Govt. who shall have right to vote in all the meeting of
the market committee.

9.

II) Whether elected or nominated By election of the APMC.

(Detailed procedure)
The Chairman & Vice Chairman shall be elected from
members of the farmers constituency only.
Market fee
Name of the Commodity
I) Rate of Market fee (Item wise)
a) Food Grains, Pulses, Oil Seeds and other Commercial
crops @ 1.5 %
b) All Vegetables including Onion & Potato @ 1%
(Excluding Gherkins)
c) All Flowers @ 1%
d) Cattle per head Rs. 5/Sheep, Goat per head Rs. 1/II) Procedure of levy and collection of At present, levy at single point is collected. Market fee paid
Market Fee
produce in one market committee is exempted from Levy in
all the APMCs in the State Subject to production of Form 35
B

III) Is the fee levied once in State Provided further that, if on any agricultural produce market
fee has already been levied And collected under sub-section
(Procedure for getting the exemption)
(2) or sec 65, in any market area within the State and such
Agricultural produce is processed and sold in any other
market area within the state or Exported outside the state it
shall be Exempted from the levy of market fee.

IV) Exemptions on payments of Market

fee (in detail item wise)
a) Agricultural Produce
b) Rate of Market Fee

1) Co-op Societies dealing is notified Agril. Produce are

permitted to pay 80% of the market fee payable to concerned
Market Committee.
2) Direct purchase license, spot exchange, contract farming
70% of the market fee leviable is to be paid to market
committee.
3) Under the industrial policy of the State for the period from
2006 2011 new processing industries set up are eligible for
100 % market fee exemption on the purchase of notified
produce from farmers Directly (Pulses, oilseeds, Fruits &
Vegetables)

V) Total income of market fee of State

2005 06
2006 07
2007 08
2008 09

1,33,39,24,673.00
1,51,91,71,000.00
1,77,30,00,000.00
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