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Stable, long-term policies can turn the tide -A Amarender Reddy

-The Tribune

A major hurdle to increasing exports is the decades-long neglect of export market infrastructure, which doesn’t meet the importing countries’ standards in terms of quality, quantity and other attributes such as food safety norms. India lacks an export-oriented strategy for agricultural commodities to establish itself as a regular supplier to international markets due to ad hoc measures such as a ban on exports or increase in tariffs off and on.

THE farmers’ agitation against the Central farm laws is almost a year long. Although farmers fear discontinuation of procurement at the Minimum Support Price (MSP), they think that they are better off with the development of vibrant markets rather than the skewed and sometimes non-functional and uncertain procurement operations focusing only on a few states and crops. Statistical evidence indicates that the majority of the farmers are not selling their produce to the government procurement agencies under the APMC (agricultural produce market committee) mandi system. Rather, they prefer to have flexible marketing systems with good infrastructure either from APMC markets or private markets or even new markets developed by Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs).

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