dc.description.abstract | The union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
had prescribed a model Agricultural Produce Marketing
Committee Act in 2003. The state-level adoption of the
act has been tardy and varied in terms of both the
magnitude and content of agricultural market reforms.
Yet, the ministry under the current central government
has come up with another model act, the Agricultural
Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and
Facilitation) Act, 2017, supposedly an improvement over
the 2003 act. Among other things, the provision that has
grabbed much attention is the removal of contract
farming from the APMC domain to a separate model act
of Agricultural Produce and Livestock Contract Farming
and Services (Promotion and Facilitation). Analysing
these draft acts, the paper finds that both the model
acts suffer from serious conceptual lacunae that have
implications for their application and governance,
and, consequently, for inclusive and sustainable
agricultural development. | en_US |