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Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister for Revenue R. Ashoka speaks during the monsoon session of the Karnataka legislature, in Bengaluru, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (PTI Photo)(PTI26-09-2020_000089B) (PTI)

Karnataka assembly approves amendment to the APMC Act

1 min read . 26 Sep 2020

Durjan Singh Patel, a maize grower from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh asks what the point is of announcing MSPs when farmers like him have to sell their produce at half the promised price.

‘We did not ask for this freedom’: Voices of farmers from beyond Punjab, Haryana

3 min read . 24 Sep 2020

Maharashtra has 305 APMCs across the state, which regulate purchase and sale of agriculture commodities in designated APMC markets. (Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint)

Lockdown impact: APMC Mumbai may not be able to function when it reopens Monday

2 min read . 17 May 2020

Karnataka chief minister B.S.Yediyurappa.

Karnataka takes ordinance route to amend APMC, regularise building violations

2 min read . 14 May 2020

APMC Mumbai to conduct covid-19 tests of 15,000 market people at cheaper rates

4 min read . 12 May 2020

Covid-19: Navi Mumbai mayor urges state govt to shut APMC market

2 min read . 07 May 2020

Maharashtra has 305 APMCs across the state, which regulate purchase and sale of agriculture commodities in designated markets. (Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint)

Covid-19: APMC markets reopen in Mumbai, Pune amid food crisis fear

4 min read . 14 Apr 2020

Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Prices of rice, pulses spike in Mumbai

4 min read . 12 Apr 2020

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: ANI)

States should dismantle APMCs, adopt e-NAM for farmers' benefit: Sitharaman

2 min read . 12 Nov 2019

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

Opinion | How to weaken the mandi monopoly

3 min read . 07 Nov 2018

It is clear that we will have to wait till 2019 for deep agricultural reforms. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

The wait for deep agricultural reforms

4 min read . 28 May 2018

Under the present Maharashtra APMC Act, all farm produce except vegetables, fruits and sugarcane, must be sold at APMC markets or other designated markets. Photo: AP

APMC reforms in Maharashtra hit a roadblock

4 min read . 06 Apr 2018

PM Narendra Modi wants states to swifty undertake market reforms of the decades-old and restricted APMC architecture. Photo: Reuters

Narendra Modi calls for swift APMC reforms to benefit farmers

2 min read . 23 Mar 2018

The thorny issue of agriculture marketing reform has again been sidestepped. Photo: Bloomberg

The centre’s failure to steer agriculture right

4 min read . 19 Mar 2018

Contract farming suffers from market failures. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

The government’s role in contract farming

4 min read . 02 Mar 2018

Apart from the agriculture sector, there needs to be increased focus on agriculture-allied sectors if we want to improve overall rural income. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Rural India: focus on non-agriculture sector

4 min read . 31 Jan 2018

The act seeks to bar the transfer of ownership of the farmer’s land to companies under all circumstances.

Centre drafts model contract farming act to counter price risks

2 min read . 28 Dec 2017

Agriculture is an arena where policy-induced distortion is the rule, not an exception. Photo: HT

Unshackle Indian agriculture

4 min read . 13 Dec 2017

Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. The state government has put off elections to all 306 Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs) across Maharashtra by at least by one-and-a-half years. Photo: Mint

Maharashtra government defers APMC elections, NCP sees red

3 min read . 13 Sep 2017

Sharad Pawar had to clarify that NCP wouldn’t join NDA meant speculation had gained some credence and couldn’t be dismissed by just party spokespersons, an NCP leader said. Photo: HT

NCP workers in Maharashtra feel party’s in a state of drift

3 min read . 07 Sep 2017

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