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.
Maharashtra farmers exploring partnerships with corporates
February 12, 2021
MahaFPC has already launched the country’s first onion storage in PPP mode
Maharashtra Farmers Producer Company (MahaFPC), a consortium of about 400 FPCs in the State, is exploring partnerships and joint ventures with corporate houses even as debates and discussions on new farm laws continue.
The MahaFPC has already launched India’s first onion storage and marketing infrastructure through the public-private-partnership (PPP) model. Yogesh Thorat, MD, MahaFPC, told
BusinessLine it is high time farmers looked at equitable partnerships and not a subsidy to survive.
“There is no option for small farmers than to form FPCs and corporate bodies will have to deal with FPCs. Corporate bodies would not be interested in production-centric operations but in infrastructure and value chain development. We are looking for investment-centric partnerships and joint ventures. This is the way to move forward,”