Detailed Project Report on Development of Modern ... - Agmarknet

Modern Terminal Market Nasik
CHAPTER - IV
PROBLEMS IN EXISTING SYSTEM
As per existing APMC Act only notified commodities can be traded by licensed
traders in notified area with the payment of fees under regulatory framework of
agriculture produce market committee (APMC). No commodity can be traded
and no transactions can take place without payment of market fees to APMC by
any means.
As such, the markets don’t play a pro-active role in attracting
produce or in facilitating the farmers to organize logistics.
Since most of the
farmers are small and marginal, they are in the hands of intermediaries as they
get little information for price and are subjected to exploitation.
By restricting
marketing to the notified market yards only, it has created an environment of
regulation and monopoly of existing traders and other traders are prohibited by
artificial entry. Therefore, it is necessary to create a market place, which works,
in its natural form where large number of buyers and large number of sellers
participate in transactions and decide price without monopoly of any single
community with total transparency.
• Designing and Planning of existing Market has not been efficiency linked
and quality driven. Inside the market the land use pattern is faulty.
Spaces allocated to marketing activities are quite enormous, while parking
in circulation area either openly ignored or uncrossed open.
Designs of
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