When it comes to marketing surplus agricultural produce in India, approximately 30% is traded through regulated agricultural markets, popularly known as Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMC) or Mandis.
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In the first and second part of this series on ‘Scientific Disposal of Buffer Stocks in India’, we spoke about why India urgently needs a concrete, scientific and systematic disposal plan for buffer stocks.
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In the first part of this three-part series on Scientific Disposal of Buffer Stocks, we spoke about how and why the government procures buffer stocks in India. We also posed three questions:
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Indian Government has done a commendable job in ensuring food safety for the country’s more than 1.2 billion population. Popularly known as “buffer stock management of agricultural produce”, this has served well to almost eradicate hunger from the country. However, there is surely enough room to further improve the management of these buffer stocks, especially in their disposal.
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Reiterating the Government’s commitment to double farmers’ income by 2022, the Union Budget 2018 has given a big boost to the Indian Agriculture sector.
Announcing a slew of new schemes, as well as enhancing support for existing schemes, to the tune of Rs. 14.34 lakh crores, this is perhaps the first Union Budget after independence that has looked beyond Minimum Support Prices (MSP) to enhance farmers’ incomes.
