freedom of choice relating to sale and purchase of farmers’ produce which facilitates remunerative prices through competitive alternative trading channels; to promote efficient, transparent and barrier-free inter-State and intra-State trade and commerce of farmers’ produce outside the physical premises of markets or deemed markets notified under various State agricultural produce market legislations; to provide a facilitative framework for electronic trading and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,––
(a) “electronic trading and transaction platform” means a platform set up to
facilitate direct and online buying and selling for conduct of trade and commerce of
farmers’ produce through a network of electronic devices and internet applications,
where each such transaction results in physical delivery of farmers’ produce;
(b) “farmer” means an individual engaged in the production of farmers’ produce
by self or by hired labour or otherwise, and includes the farmer producer organisation;
(c) “farmers’ produce” means,––
(i) foodstuffs including cereals like wheat, rice or other coarse grains,
pulses, edible oilseeds, oils, vegetables, fruits, nuts, spices, sugarcane and
products of poultry, piggery, goatery, fishery and dairy intended for human
consumption in its natural or processed form;
(ii) cattle fodder including oilcakes and other concentrates; and
(iii) raw cotton whether ginned or unginned, cotton seeds and raw jute;
(d) “farmer producer organisation” means an association or group of farmers, by
whatever name called,––
(i) registered under any law for the time being in force; or
(ii) promoted under a scheme or programme sponsored by the Central or
the State Government;
(e) “inter-State trade” means the act of buying or selling of farmers’ produce,
wherein a trader of one State buys the farmers’produce from the farmer or a trader of
another State and such farmers’ produce is transported to a State other than the State
in which the trader purchased such farmers’ produce or where such farmers’ produce
originated;
(f) “intra-State trade” means the act of buying or selling of farmers’ produce,
wherein a trader of one State buys the farmers’ produce from a farmer or a trader of the
same State in which the trader purchased such farmers’ produce or where such farmers’
produce originated;
(g) “notification” means a notification published by the Central Government or
the State Governments in the Official Gazette and the expressions “notify” and “notified”
shall be construed accordingly;
(h) “person” includes––
(a) an individual;
(b) a partnership firm;
(c) a company;
(d) a limited liability partnership;
(e) a co-operative society;
(f) a society; or
(g) any association or body of persons duly incorporated or recognised
as a group under any ongoing programmes of the Central Government or the
State Government;
(i) “prescribed” means prescribed by the rules made by the Central Government
under this Act;
“scheduled farmers’ produce” means the agricultural produce specified under
any State APMC Act for regulation;
(k) “State” includes the Union territory;
(l) “State APMC Act” means any State legislation or Union territory legislation
in force in India, by whatever name called, which regulates markets for agricultural
produce in that State;
(m) “trade area” means any area or location, place of production, collection and
aggregation including––
(a) farm gates;
(b) factory premises;
(c) warehouses;
(d) silos;
(e) cold storages; or
(f) any other structures or places,
from where trade of farmers’ produce may be undertaken in the territory of India
but does not include the premises, enclosures and structures constituting––
(i) physical boundaries of principal market yards, sub-market yards
and market sub-yards managed and run by the market committees formed
under each State APMC Act in force in India; and
(ii) private market yards, private market sub-yards, direct marketing
collection centres, and private farmer-consumer market yards managed by
persons holding licenses or any warehouses, silos, cold storages or other
structures notified as markets or deemed markets under each State APMC
Act in force in India;
(n) “trader” means a person who buys farmers’ produce by way of inter-State
trade or intra-State trade or a combination thereof, either for self or on behalf of one or
more persons for the purpose of wholesale trade, retail, end-use, value addition,
processing, manufacturing, export, consumption or for such other purpose.
CHAPTER II
PROMOTION AND FACILITATION OF TRADE AND COMMERCE OF FARMERS’ PRODUCE
3. Subject to the provisions of this Act, any farmer or trader or electronic trading and
transaction platform shall have the freedom to carry on the inter-State or intra-State trade and
commerce in farmers’ produce in a trade area.
4. (1) Any trader may engage in the inter-State trade or intra-State trade of scheduled
farm
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