Crop Market

The state government of Maharashtra is now relaxing norms for the creation of alternative marketing channels to allow companies to purchase directly from farmers, bypassing intermediaries. This boost for direct retail sales of fruits and vegetables as against the traditional system, wherein farmers sell produce to traders in Agricultural Produce…

The farmers in the Madanapalle division are again at the receiving end due to the glut in tomato production and the stoppage of the purchase of produce by the traders from outside including from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu compounded the problems of the Chittoor farmers. The farmers who…