3.8. Recent Government Measures to improve Agricultural Marketing in India

1. Drafting of new Model Law- Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitating) Act, 2017 for reforming agricultural marketing.

2. The Government of India launched National Agriculture Market aimed at unifying agriculture markets.

3. Karnataka launched Rashtriya electronic Market Scheme (ReMS) to unite principal markets in e-platform.

4. NITI Aayog has proposed a reformed land leasing law to recognize the tenant and safeguard interest of land owners. The reforms also lay stress on the untapped scope of agro forestry in supplementing farmers’ income.

5. NITI Aayog has launched an index to rank States and UTs that is based on implementation of seven provisions proposed under model APMC Act, joining eNAM initiative, special treatment to fruits and vegetables for marketing and level of taxes in mandis. These indicators reveal ease of doing agribusiness as well as opportunities for farmers to benefit from modern trade and commerce and have wider option for sale of her/his produce.

6. The Index is named as “Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index” and it has a score which can have minimum value “0” implying no reforms and maximum value “100” implying complete reforms in the selected areas. States and UTs have been ranked in terms of the score of the index.