| After the creation of State of Haryana in 1966,
the State began its exciting and inspiring story of development. In
the agricultural sector, with success of green revolution, Haryana
became the second State having large agriculture surplus. State of
Haryana is regarded as the wheat basket and rice bowl of India, contributing
45% of rice and 65% of wheat to the central pool and more than 5%
to total food production of the country.
It was, therefore, imperative that a strong and efficient marketing
infrastructure is created by setting up modern markets and evolving
a feasible and efficient marketing system in the State. The pre-requisite
for this was the constitution of an Agricultural Marketing Board.
Therefore, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board was constituted
on Ist August, 1969 with its headquarter at Chandigarh, the capital
of Haryana. At the time of its inception, there were only 58 Market
Committees in the State with 58 Principal yards and 60 Sub Yards.
Even these markets were small and congested and lacked the basic
amenities and facilities for proper handling of the arrivals. The
farmers had to travel long distances even upto 50 to 60 kilometers
to bring their produce and often on katcha roads, to the Markets.
The Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board was set up on 1st
August, 1969 for exercising superintendence and control over the
Market Committees of Haryana. The primary objective of the Board
has been to set up a marketing infrastructure for better regulation
of the purchase, sale, storage and processing of agricultural produce
within the framework of Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act,
1961 and Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets (General) Rules, 1962.
The Board, therefore, regulates the marketing of agricultural produce.
It provides infrastructure for facilitating marketing of agricultural
produce. It supports agricultural development.
The Board has been promoting the interest of the farmer, facilitating
the buyers. Today, it has created excellent facilities for marketing
of agricultural produce through 106 Principal Market Yards, 182
Sub Yards and 178 Purchase Centres (see detail in INFRASTRUCTURE).
Now we are on threshold of re-defining our roles and restructuring
ourselves to meet the fast changing dynamics of agri-business world
and the rising expectation of the modern farming practices. Today
we seek to help our farmer to get maximum benefit by providing latest
market information in prices and trade practices. It is the need
of the day to respond to the changing trends in agriculture at global
level (see detail in VISION
& MISSION).
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