Year: 2017 | Month: December | Volume 3 | Issue 2
Status of Legal Reforms in Agricultural Marketing
Nitu Mehta(Ranka) and Latika Sharma*
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Abstract:
Appropriate laws are essential to any national agricultural marketing system. An inappropriate legal framework can distort and reduce the efficiency of the market, increase the cost to the participants and severely stunt the development of a healthy private sector. Despite this, programs to reform agricultural marketing systems have often been based on an inadequate understanding of the relationship between law and the way in which marketing systems function. The purpose of this article is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of domestic agricultural marketing by providing policy and law-makers with the necessary theoretical framework, practical tools and guidance. Marketing of agricultural products in India is governed by the state level statutory bodies – the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (“APMC”) established under the Agricultural Produce Marketing Acts which has been enacted by a majority of states in India.
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