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Centre’s Scheme to Convert Rural Haats into Agri Markets Remains Unutilised -Dheeraj Mishra

-TheWire.in

Announced in the 2018-19 budget, the scheme was meant to provide small and marginal farmers with 22,000 mini APMCs and thus fair prices. But RTI queries show that not a single haat has been developed into an agricultural market.

New Delhi: The Centre’s scheme to convert rural haats (village markets) into agricultural markets, which was meant to help small and marginal farmers who cannot access the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMC) markets, is now in cold storage.

Not a single haat has been converted or developed into an agricultural market under the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious project to upgrade 22,000 rural markets across the country as outlined in the 2018-19 national budget.

This information, revealed by documents obtained by The Wire under the Right to Information Act, casts doubt upon the claims made by the Centre as well as state governments of providing better agricultural markets to the nation’s farmers.

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