The Agriculture Marketing and Agriculture Business department has sold out as many as 1,550 applications in the past week to the traders interested in occupying new shops available in the integrated vegetable market in Kallikudi, in city outskirts.
The Agriculture Marketing and Agriculture Business department has sold out as many as 1,550 applications in the past week to the traders interested in occupying new shops available in the integrated vegetable market in Kallikudi, in city outskirts.
With an aim of providing a major marketing space to farmers and self-help groups to sell their products, the district administration decided to hold kisan markets every Sunday in the city under the Agriculture Technology Management Agency (Atma) scheme.
The Centre is most likely to come out with an institutional mechanism for procurement of notified crops on minimum support price (MSP) from the ongoing rabi marketing season
Due to lower production, Garlic prices have jumped by 40% in the last three months. Data compiled by National
Horticulture Board (NHB) showed garlic price increase to Rs 82 a kg in the wholesale markets in December, as
compared to Rs 59 a kg in September.
Battling two extremes of drought and unseasonal rains in various states, the foodgrain output is likely to decline for the second straight year in 2016. The lower farm output also led to a sharp jump in prices of key kitchen food items like pulses, onions, tomatoes and mustard oil in 2015.
New Delhi: For marketing agricultural produce the government may use the cooperative milk marketing template
of dairy products maker Amul, as it aims to cut out the middlemen and ensure higher remuneration for farmers.
This could be done by incentivising private players to work as integrators of fruits and vegetables, told a
senior official at Niti Aayog.
Tomato prices have risen eight times from the last three months and could require government intervention like those that brought the prices of onions and pulses under control.In November, tomato prices have firmed up 30 per cent on reports of crop damage in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Karnataka.
