Bhubaneswar: Market Yard of National Importance (MNI) will be implemented in Odisha in the first phase to promote seamless inter-mandi and inter-state trade of agricultural produce.
The MNI will be implemented in Odisha along with Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Bihar, Official source here said Monday.
This was decided at the first meeting of the expert committee to promote seamless inter-mandi and inter-state trade of agricultural produce through the conceptualisation and implementation of Market Yard of National Importance (MNI) held at Bengaluru Monday.
It has been proposed that the MNI will be implemented in the states of Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Bihar and Odisha in the first phase.
The committee has been assigned the task of recommending the framework for implementation, Principal Secretary Cooperation Department, Member Secretary, OSAM Board Sanjeev Kumar Chadha said.
The Government of India has taken various measures for the benefit of the farming communities on a sustainable basis. Various programmes and schemes for the development of the agriculture sector are implemented in a decentralized manner with the flexibility for State Governments to formulate and implement appropriate projects to suit their specific requirements, said the source.
The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Department, Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare (Agricultural Marketing Division), Government of India has constituted an Expert Committee to promote seamless inter-mandi and inter-state trade of agricultural produce through the conceptualization and implementation of Market Yard of National Importance (MNI).
Chadha said the MNI Platform will work towards establishing an order-driven trade based on quality, quantity and transparent price discovery mechanism encompassing basic risk management and integrated logistics principles.
The focus is on developing the inter-district and interstate buyer base, strengthening a transparent price discovery mechanism and enabling an assisted-integrated delivery/logistic model will help farmers’ produce reach inter-district and interstate buyers.
He further said it has been decided to implement MNI in the state of Odisha for Cotton, Maize, Ginger & Chilly market yards in the first phase.
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