1. APMC Bill tabled in Legislative Assembly
The Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) (Amendment) Bill, 2023, was tabled in the Legislative Assembly for scrapping the amendments introduced by the previous BJP government.
The Bill said that the trading of commodities by farmers outside the APMC yards would be prone to exploitation by the traders since there was no regulatory mechanism for controlling the exploitation. It was noticed that the farmers’ produce price and income had not increased by allowing them to trade their produce outside APMC yards. Moreover, the APMCs income has come down sharply in view of the trade taking place outside the market yards, the Bill said.
