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.
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Amid the ongoing farmer protests at Delhi s borders against the three farm Acts, a discussion paper presented at a National Dialogue on Indian Agriculture in 2030, organised by NITI Aayog and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has said that farmers need to be paid on the same day either in cash or electronically before the delivery of their produce in a trade area (which is classified as an area outside the jurisdiction of a regulated APMC under the new acts) to lower the possibility of disputes and also eliminate the chances of going to a sub-divisional magistrate for settlement. It also called for better oversight and regulation for trading on an electronic platform as facilitated by the Acts which could be in the form of some agency or intermediary that could facilitate transactions between farmers or aggregators with the buyers.
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It would take several years and more effort to make FPOs really work for small and marginal farmers
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IIT Guwahati students’ start-up develops app for farmers to manage crops and farms
IIT Guwahati students’ start-up develops app for farmers to manage crops and farms
IIT Guwahati students’ start-up has developed AgSpeak, a multi-lingual smartphone AI-based application for farmers to smartly manage their crops and farms.
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UPDATED: December 15, 2020 17:05 IST
AgSpert, an agri-tech startup, co-founded by the students of IIT Guwahati, and alumni of NIT Silchar and Dibrugarh University, Assam, has developed AgSpeak, a multi-lingual smartphone application for farmers to smartly manage their farms and remotely monitor distress activities. Developed with a goal of optimising the in-farm productivity through Artificial Intelligence (AI), this application will help the farmers in making decisions and managing farm activities by the click of a single button on their smartphone or computer. AgSpeak was launched by Prof TG Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati on December 13, 2