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Modern Terminal Market Nasik
caters to the flowers grown around the city.
The market has not achieved the
level of expectation in the year 2005 in terms of arrival and volume of business.
The reasons for not achieving the operational level is advocated as - inadequate
wholesalers to buy material because of deposit requirement equal to the amount
of purchase everyday by the traders. This practice of NDDB is neither practically
possible nor is prevailing in the existing trade practice. A backward linkage with
farmers is also inadequate and incomplete and information communication is not
in place.
While cooperating with the NDDB in inculcating a new culture of modern
markets, the Govt. of Karnataka amended the APMC Act and allowed NDDB to
open and run the said market. The Govt. of India prepared a Model Act to bring
amendment in APMC Act and allowing private markets to come up. As a fallow
up various states have amended their acts to pave the way for the private sector
to come forward on the same lines. The Govt. of India has also introduced
Market Infrastructure Development Scheme (MIDS) which is linked with reforms.
In this background the Ministry of Agriculture took up the matter with different
States and the NDDB for replicating similar but improved model with removal of
all weakness of previous system in different forms in different States. Taking
initiatives, the Ministry offered to assist the willing States in formulation of
<strong>Detailed</strong> <strong>Project</strong> <strong>Report</strong>s (DPR) for the setting up of Integrated Horticultural
Markets and subsequently in tying up of financing and implementation of the
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