APMC is a marketing board established by state Government inIndia to ensure farmers are safeguarded from exploision by large retailors as well as ensuring the farm to retail price spread does not reach excessively high levels.
There are about 2477 principal regulated markets based on geography and 4843 sub market yards regulated by respective APMCs in India.
What is APMC Act?
Whatever the state Government fixes under the APMCAct, the last farmers die, the situation is even worse that even 2% of the charge in government procurements also fixed.
If the government wants to buy wheat or donation then purchase is blown from farmers first and then FCI. In this way the power of the MPC Act is being used to generate resourses or to compensate for the politics of middleman.
Farmers who get the price of their produce and the price that cosumers have to pay to eat on the plate, these difference is called farm to four which may be increased 65% in india.
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