Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Notice (8): Undefined variable: urlPrefix [APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8]latest-news-updates/gramin-agricultural-markets-two-years-on-just-6-haats-upgraded-shagun-kapil.html"/> LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Gramin Agricultural Markets: Two years on, just 6% haats upgraded -Shagun Kapil | Im4change.org
Resource centre on India's rural distress
 
 

Gramin Agricultural Markets: Two years on, just 6% haats upgraded -Shagun Kapil

-Down to Earth

The Centre had announced a scheme in the 2018-19 budget to upgrade rural haats so that small farmers could get fair prices for their produce

It has been two years since an ambitious programme to convert 22,000 rural haats into Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) was launched. But only 1,251 have come up till now. This is barely six per cent of the target.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told the Lok Sabha that physical infrastructure or facilities had been provided to 1,251 rural haats so far to convert them to GrAMs. Work on 1,553 other village haats was underway.

Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of GrAMs completed till date — 245, 163, 127, 111, and 106 respectively, the minister’s reply noted.

States like Jharkhand and Maharashtra, with significant farmer populations, had not developed any GrAM. However, work was ongoing in one rural haat in Jharkhand. No work was ongoing in Maharashtra’s 3,500 existing rural haats, Tomar said.

Then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced a scheme in the 2018-19 Union budget speech to develop and upgrade the existing 22,000 rural haats into GrAMs.

Please click here to read more.