Bharatiya Janata Party state general secretary Arvind Bhadauriya said that the facility of Direct Bank Transfer (DBT) against fair price of farmers produce from all
the Agriculture Mandi’s of the state would start by March 2018.
Bhadauriya in a statement here on Sunday said, “The facility of DBT from all the Agriculture Mandi’s of the state for farmers produce would start by March 2018 after fixing the best rate for it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sanctioned an amount of Rs 200 crore initially for it. In the first phase central government has started this facility in 23 Agriculture Mandi’s of 8 states including the Karond Agriculture Mandi of Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal.”
Bhadauriya further said that trade of only one produce is being done currently in the 23 Agriculture Mandi’s where e-agriculture market platform has been started. By September 2016 the central government would start this facility in over 200 Mandis of the country. The facility of e-agriculture market platform would start in all the 585 Agriculture Mandi’s of the country by March 2018, he added.
He said that in order to make National Agriculture Market project more effective amendment in the Agriculture Produce Marketing Act would be made shortly, so that online trading could be done through it. There would not be any middlemen between the buyer and the seller.
The seller would know that in which part of the country he could get good price and where the demand for his produce is. The agriculture produce would be sold online and the farmers would also get their payments online, he added.