| The Agricultural
produce in Haryana is being regulated under the Punjab Agricultural
Produce Markets Act,1961. The preamble of the Act is “an act to provide
for improved regulation in marketing of agricultural produce, development
of efficient marketing system, promotion of agri-processing and agricultural
export and the establishment and proper administration of markets
for agricultural produce in the state of Haryana and to put in place
a effective infrastructure for marketing of agricultural produce and
lay down procedures and system thereto”.
The primary objective of Haryana
Marketing Board and Market Committees is to establish modern Markets
for efficient marketing of agricultural produce by providing modern
facilities in the mandis and to enforce the provisions of the Act,
Rules and Bye-laws framed thereunder. Board is a body corporate
as well as a local authority by the name of the State Agricultural
Marketing Board having perpetual succession and a common seal, and
shall by the said name sue and be sued, and shall, subject to the
provisions of this Act, be competent to acquire and hold property
both movable or immovable, to lease, sell or otherwise transfer
any movable or immovable property which may have, become vested
in or been acquired by it, and to contract and to do all other things
necessary for the purposes of this act. Where as Market Committees
are to enforce the provisions of this Act and the rules and the
bye-laws made thereunder in the notified market area and, when so
required by the Board, to establish a market therein providing such
facilities for persons visiting in connection with the purchase,
sale, storage, weighment and processing of Agricultural produce
concerned as the Board may from time to time direct to control and
regulate the admission to the market, to determine the conditions
for the use of the market and to prosecute or confiscate the agricultural
produce belonging to person trading without a valid license. The
Board may from time to time direct these market committees to control
and regulate the admission to the markets Market Committees are
service rendering agencies and their main source of income is market
fee.
Aims and Objectives
1. Creation of statewide agricultural
produce marketing infrastructure, comprising of various market yards,
purchase centers, link roads etc.
2. Profit maximization for farmers by ensuring best-possible prices
for their produce at the various market yards, sub yards and purchase
centers.
3. Regulation and administration of various Market Committees all
across the state as per the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets
Act, 1961.
4. Collection of Market Fee and other levies from the purchasers
on various transactions taking place at the Mandis.
5. Creation of additional facilities, along with expansion and maintenance
works on behalf of various Market Committees.
6. Facilitating the procurement activities of organization such
as FCI, Warehousing Corporation, HAFED etc. at various markets /
Mandis.
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