Maharashtra: New Farm Laws Helped Farmers Enhance Profit By Selling Outside APMCs, SC Stay Hampering Sales
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The new farm reform laws brought in by the Modi government is helping Farmer Producer Companies (FPC) in Maharashtra in creating an alternative marketing channel for farmers, reports
BusinessLine.
Farmers are also receiving the market rates on their WhatsApp groups or via SMSes which help them to decide whether they want to sell their produce in the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis or to the FPC procurement centres.
Yogesh Thorat, MD of Maharashtra Farmers Producer Company (MahaFPC) which is a consortium of about 400 FPCs says that the new farm law about APMCs gives freedom to farmers to choose the market. If the rates are higher than MSP, then farmers sell their produce outside the APMC mandi to FPCâs procurement centres and when market rates are less than MSP, they take produce to the APMC mandi.