Lok Sabha Question No. 1234 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-03
Subject: APMC regulated Mandis
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Janardan Singh Sigriwal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1234

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 3 RD  DECEMBER, 2024

## APMC REGULATED MANDIS

1234.  SHRI JANARDAN SINGH SIGRIWAL:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण मंğी be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of APMC regulated mandis at present in the country, State-wise;
- (b) whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  there  is  a  need  to  establish  more  number  of markets to prevent distress sales and ensure income security for farmers;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  initiative  for  expanding  existing  APMC premises; and
- (e) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  other  measures  taken/being  taken  by  the Government to set up more regulated mandis in the country?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण राÏय मंğी (SHRI BHAGIRATH CHOUDHARY)

(a): The  State-wise  list  of  Agricultural  Produce  Market  Committee  (APMC)  regulated mandis in the country is at Annexure .

(b) to (e): Yes,  Government  is  aware  of  the  need  of  more  number  of  markets  in  the country  to  address  the  issue  of  market  distress  and  also  ensuring  income  security  to  the farmers.  At  present,  one  regulated  APMC  mandi  serves  approximately  406  sq.  km.  area against the norm of 80 sq. km. area (National Commission on Farmers' Report, 2006).

Agricultural Marketing is a State subject and Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) are regulated under respective State Agricultural Produce Market Committee Act of the State. States after assessing the requirement based on production, marketable surplus & existence of traders etc. used to establish APMC markets.

Government  of  India  has  been  always  supporting  the  idea  of  strengthening  of Agricultural  Produce  Market  Committees  (APMCs)  and  making  them  more  competitive through  improving  services  and  infrastructure.  Government  has  been  assisting  APMCs  for infrastructure  and  value  chain  development  through  various  schemes  like  Rashtriya  Krishi

Vikas  Yojana  -  RAFTAAR,  Agriculture  Market  Infrastructure  (AMI),  National  Agriculture Market (e-NAM) and Agri. Infrastructure Fund (AIF) etc.

Further,  to  fill  up  the  market  gap,  Government  of  India  through  reforms  has  been promoting establishment of private  markets, direct wholesale  purchases from farmers from farm-gate  /  villages  outside  the  APMC  market  yards.  Further,  Government  also  promotes declaration of warehouses / silos / cold storages / other places as market sub-yards for trade and delivery of the farmers' produce.

In  order  to  promote  healthy  competition,  transparency  and  uniformity  across  the States/  UTs,  Government  has  developed  a  reform  indexing  table,  which  has  been  shared with States/ UTs.

## ANNEXURE

## State-wise  number  of  Agricultural  Produce  Market  Committee  (APMC)  regulated mandis across the country (As on 31.03.2023)

| Sl. No.   | State/UT          |   APMC regulated Mandis |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |                     318 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |                      19 |
| 3         | Assam             |                     226 |
| 4         | Chhattisgarh      |                     187 |
| 5         | Goa               |                       8 |
| 6         | Gujarat           |                     405 |
| 7         | Haryana           |                     285 |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh  |                      63 |
| 9         | Jharkhand         |                     201 |
| 10        | Karnataka         |                     564 |
| 11        | Madhya Pradesh    |                     557 |
| 12        | Maharashtra       |                     929 |
| 13        | Meghalaya         |                       2 |
| 14        | Nagaland          |                      19 |
| 15        | Odisha            |                     535 |
| 16        | Punjab            |                     436 |
| 17        | Rajasthan         |                     484 |
| 18        | Tamil Nadu        |                     288 |
| 19        | Telangana         |                     282 |
| 20        | Tripura           |                      21 |
| 21        | Uttar Pradesh     |                     633 |
| 22        | Uttarakhand       |                      62 |
| 23        | West Bengal       |                     537 |
| 24        | Delhi             |                      15 |
| 25        | Chandigarh        |                       1 |
| 26        | Puducherry        |                       8 |
|           | Total             |                    7085 |

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