‘New Ordinance will boost cashew sector growth in Karnataka’

The Karnataka Cashew Manufacturers’ Affiliation (KCMA) has stated the Farmers’ Deliver Trade and Commerce (Marketing and Facilitation) Ordinance 2020 will help boost the growth of cashew industry in Karnataka.

Welcoming the Ordinance, Subraya Pai, President of KCMA, explained to BusinessLine that both equally farmer and trader will gain as they can freely transport generate all over the place and decide for the very best markets. With this, distress product sales will appear to an close.

APMC cess

Stating that APMC in Karnataka was charging one.five for each cent cess on uncooked cashew nut (RCN) uniformly, irrespective of the area of origin. This was incurring extra price tag to cashew producers in the Point out. The neighbouring States do not demand APMC cess on RCN, he stated.

With this Ordinance, inter-Point out motion of uncooked of cashew nut will come to be trouble-cost-free, as there will not be any prerequisite of permits and fees, he stated.

Stating that the Agricultural Deliver Marketplace Committee (APMC) was conceptualised additional than 5 many years in the past, Pai stated the goal was to guarantee good cost to farmers, dissemination of current market information and facts and to reduce their exploitation by intermediary and traders.

He stated the APMCs focussed primarily on generating additional revenues over the yrs, and begun collecting current market fees on trader-to-trader transactions, and on transactions done outside the house the APMC current market yards. The APMCs also unsuccessful to evolve with time. They have not adopted new technologies and have come to be a hindrance to setting up countrywide markets, Pai stated.

APMCs to continue to be

This Ordinance will permit farmers and traders to take pleasure in the flexibility of alternative in sale and acquire of agricultural generate. The present APMC markets will go on to operate and can be employed by farmers and traders if they want to do so. But there will no for a longer period be any compulsion to use APMCs.

Pai stated this would facilitate barrier-cost-free marketing and advertising of agricultural generate.

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June 10, 2020

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