1. Marketing Interventions to Ensure Remunerative Prices of Pulses, Oil seeds and Coarse cereal grains AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT Group - IV

2. Incremental growth in Agricultural production depends on interventions related to;  Backward linkages (input subsidies, incentives)  Forward linkages (market interventions) Although huge incentives on input side, production of pulses, coarse cereals not taken up if proper market is not there. If market facilities will strengthen, production may rise due to surety of market. Thus, it directly facilitate to farmers to grow more pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds. (specially in pre dominant areas of pulses & coarse cereals)

3. Sr. No.InfrastructureNos. 1APMCs207 2Main yard199 3Sub yard201 4Commodities arrived (lakh Quintal)1775 (as on 31.03.2011)

4. Administrative To ensure remunerative market through policy Infrastructure Creation To facilitate the farmers to come at market with produce for sell Awareness To spread awareness with market intelligence

5. Amendment as per Model APMC Act in 2007,  Private market  E- market  Direct marketing  Farmer’s market  Contract farming  Common License  Single Point levy  Special market

6. Major players received license under Model Act,  Reliance Food Processing  Reliance Farmers Fresh  Aditya Birla Retail  National Spot Exchange Limited  Cotton Corporation of India  Jayant Agro Organic  Gujarat State Co-operative Cotton Federation  The Cargo Service Centre

7. Sr. No.InfrastructureNormal areaTribal areaTotal 1 Electric weigh bridge 453277 2 Auction shed 172239 3 Export facilities 213 4 Cleaning Grading 8210 5 Cold storage 9211 6 Godown 33841 7 New market 492372 8 Ripening facility 011 9 Pre- cooling unit 12517 10 Pakka Platform/ Shed 9211 Requisite infrastructure created during 2007-08 to 2009-10.

8. Steps taken for market awareness as under;  Training hall facilities at different APMCs.  Display of electronic display board at village/ taluka level for market rate.  Training to Secretaries and other office bearers of APMCs for better management of handling of agricultural commodities.  Meetings with farmers for opt the crops based on market intelligence data.  Promotion of value addition through providing incentives for agro processing units, i.e. mini dal mill, oil mill etc. Thanks