Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 12, 2008 erstellt
Description:
The State APMC Act divides the entire State into various notified areas and delegates the responsibility for regulating agricultural markets in respective areas to specific APMCs. Essentially, the Act treats agricultural marketing to be a localized subject confined to a specific notified area and therefore it endeavors to create a mechanism to regulate sale of farm produce grown in that area by the farmers to the traders located within such notified area. In fact, it goes to the extent of prohibiting end users and processors located elsewhere from buying from the farmers directly in absence of license from respective APMC. But, agricultural commodity produced in one area is consumed across the country. Such commodities already have a national level physical market. The marketable surplus of one area moves out to consumption centers through a network of middlemen and traders. Such trades are neither reported nor regulated under the existing APMC Act. In case of dispute or defaults in such trade, there is no administrative or regulatory mechanism available for redressal. In order to regulate and develop such national level market for farm produce and also to provide the farmers an access to such national level market for better price realization, there is need for a central legislation to deal with “Inter state Agricultural Marketing, promotion of agri business, trade and commerce at national level”. This can be achieved even without creating any conflict with the provisions of existing State APMC Act. There are various options available in the Constitution of India, which are elaborated in this paper. In accordance with Article 368 of Constitution of India, a New Entry can be inserted in the Seventh Schedule to deal with this subject