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MARKET LEVIES OR FEES: Growers and traders have to pay market fees
which are calculated on the basis of value of volume of a commodity
bought and sold in the markets. Sometimes it may be based on cartload
or truckload.
Organization of regulated markets
The market committees look after the weights and measures and
prohibit any use of unauthorised weights and measures and all weighing
is done by licensed weighmen. Dealers in regulated markets are
required to fix prices in public and keep accounts or returns in such
a way that their submission to the market committee at regular
intervals is facilitated. Any disputes arising between the sellers and
the traders within the market are submitted to arbitration by the
“Disputes Committee”.
Meeting The Financial Requirements
Market fees on the produce brought for the sales in the market
yard.
Open Heap System: In this system the produce is heaped into lots
in front of the commission agent’s shops if already graded, it is
arranged gradewise.
Open Cart System: In this system the produce is not unloaded but
kept in the cart itself and the cart is exposed.
RM – Rural Market
Objectives of Nafed:
To facilitate the working of its affiliated cooperative institutions.
To coordinate and promote the marketing and trading activities of its
members in agricultural commodities, articles and goods.
To undertake or promote either on its own or on behalf of its member
institutions or government, inter state, intra state and
international trade and commerce in and other commodities, articles
and goods and,
To undertake supply of agricultural requisites like seed, manure,
agricultural implements, consumer goods, etc.
Functions of nafed:
Inter state trade: this involves purchase from the growers at the
harvest time at various levels either by themselves or through
primary credit societies and selling such purchase at terminal
consuming centers by expanding inter state trade.
For well over 50 yrs now, Indian agriculture has been stuck in a
rut. At one end, farmers lack access to quality inputs, credit and
knowledge that will help them improve quality and productivity. At the
other end, the output side is characterized by middlemen like
consolidators and commission agents who gnaw away at the margins. The
result- farmers end up with just 30-40 % of the price one pays.
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