Free meals for farmers visiting APMCs mooted
Minister for Horticulture Shamanur Shivashankarappa has said that the State government is planning to provide free meals to farmers visiting Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) to sell their produce.
Addressing the inaugural function of the Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market in Taj Sultanpur on the outskirts of Kalaburagi city on Tuesday, Mr. Shivashankarappa listed out a number of measures the State government proposed to take up for the benefit of the farming community.
E-marketing
He said the government was planning construct godowns in villages to help farmers stock produce free of cost. This would ensure farmers could get a good price for their produce when prices varied.
The e-marketing services launched in APMCs aims at enlarging the market through e-auctioning system, where traders from any part can bid for the farm produce at a particular market. Minister for Municipal Administration and Minority Affairs Qamarul Islam, in his inaugural speech, said that the wholesale market was constructed on 20 acres of land at an estimated cost of Rs. 19.39 crore.
The market has 80 shops for vendors, and the construction of 245 houses for workers has been taken up on 6 acres of nearby land. Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, and MLAs and MLCs were present.
Free meals for farmers visiting APMC mooted
‘Government planning to set up godowns in villages’
Source : The Hindu
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