Bumper crop: APMC village flood, regulated arrival in some mandis

With the onset of the rabi harvesting season, the major Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Saurashtra is teeming with yard gram (chickpeas) and some of them have been forced to control the arrival of the commodity.

 As the state is prepared for a bumper crop, a price forecasting report from Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU) has advised farmers on minimum support price (MSP) to sell their gram immediately after harvest. Rajkot APMC has been allowing farmers to remove gram at their yard only twice a week. “Farmers are in a hurry to market their produce to take advantage of good prices at the beginning of the season.

 Within a few hours of opening the gate for gram farmers, our yard is registering inward arrivals of up to 18,000 quintals. Traders working outside our yard are unable to handle this quantity on a daily basis and therefore, We are forced to regulate arrivals, ”said Devraj Sakhiya, President, Rajkot APMC.

 Rajkot APMC Secretary Babulal Tejani said that the arrival of coriander, cumin and cotton is also sufficient and this is causing a space crisis on the yard. Gram farmers are getting about Rs 4,500 per quintal due to the government policy

. But traders are facing capacity limitations… ”said Tejani. Gondal and Jasdan APMC are also controlling arrivals. The arrival of coriander, onion and cumin is very large.

 Therefore, we may have to regularize the arrival of gram, ”said Gondal APMC Secretary Praveen Somaiya. Central Government 5, as MSP of gram for Rabi marketing season 2021-22 100 rupees has been fixed, which is 300 rupees more than the previous year.

 But farmers are selling their crops at slightly lower rates. Kanhaiya Kishori, president of Dahod APMC, Madhya Pradesh’s largest pulses market, said, “Farmers are selling in the open market despite the price being lower than the MSP because they are not bothered about the proper average criteria for selling in the open market.

” It falls, ”Gujarat said. The initial market trend is in line with the price forecast report published by JAU’s Department of Agricultural Economics (DAE) on Thursday. “Prices of gram during March to April 2021 can range from Rs 850 to Rs 940 per 20 kg (Rs 4,250 to Rs 4,700 per quintal) at the time of harvesting. Therefore, farmers are suggested to sell gram on the crop without going to storage (at the