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Karnataka bags award in e-market services

BANGALORE, August 21, 2016

Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha handing over the DL Shah Platinum Award to Manoj Rajan, Additional Secretary and managing director of Rashtriya e-Market Services, at the 11th National Quality Conclave 2016 held in New Delhi on Saturday.

Karnataka's Rashtriya e-Market Services (ReMS) was awarded the DL Shah Platinum Award at the 11th National Quality Conclave (NQC), the annual flagship event of the Quality Council of India (QCI) held in New Delhi on Saturday.

Karnataka shows the way on unified national agri market

BANGALORE, January 29, 2015

The platform integrates 51 markets and aims at covering all the 155 main yards

Owing to changing agricultural marketing environment, establishing a national market for agricultural and horticultural produce is one of the focus areas of the government.

Absence of uniform regulations in States for the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act and lack of similar taxation system are considered to be major hurdles in establishing a common market.

Unified online market for agricultural produce is a reality

BANGALORE,FEBRUARY 23,2014

Farmers can sell produce and receive payments online

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched a unified virtual market for agricultural produce here on Saturday.

The Chief Minister said his government wanted to empower farmers so that they could fix the price for their produce."A unified market is a step towards this direction as licensed traders can bid online for agriculture produces from anywhere and farmers will have the right to reject the price if they are not satisfied," he said.

Karnataka gets unified platform for commodity trade

MUMBAI,FEBRUARY 22,2014

Rashtriya e-Market Services, a joint venture between NCDEX Spot Exchange and the Karnataka government, launched a first-of-its-kind unified market platform (UMP) in Karnataka on Saturday.

The UMP will provide an electronic auction system across the state for transparent price determination.It will offer quality-based trading in Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs) and online access to all APMC market functionaries.

Launch of online commodity trading in 35 APMC markets this year

BANGALORE,MAY 23,2014

For the benefit of farmers, the State government has decided to launch online trading in various commodities through the Rashtriya e-Market Services (ReMS) in 35 major Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) markets in the current financial year (2014–15).

So far, online trading has been launched in Tiptur, Arsikere, Tumkur and Chamarajanagar markets.Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, Minister for Agricultural Marketing Shamanur Shivashankarappa said the Unified Market Platform (UMP) through the ReMS would be implemented in Gulbarga, Yadgir, Sedam, Gadag, Bidar, Bijapur, Chitradurga, Challakere, Tumkur and Belgaum markets on June 10.

Breaking the middleman’s hold

MUMBAI,FEBRUARY 22,2014

Agriculture market reform in Karnataka has made a start, but a lot needs to be done.It is close to 3pm at the APMC market in Tiptur, about 150 km from Bengaluru. A group of farmers is glued to a television screen in the market courtyard..

Within a few minutes, there is an increase in the decibel levels as farmers talk excitedly to each other.No, the farmers are not watching a cricket match and are not getting worked up on a boundary or fall of wicket. Instead, they are tracking the screen for the price of their produce. Everyday at about 3pm, the screen starts flashing results of an online auction of the produce these farmers bring to the market.

New agricultural marketing policy unveiled

BANGALORE, September 19, 2013

Policy aims to increase competition, develop markets, empower farmers

It is close to 3pm at the APMC market in Tiptur, about 150 km from Bengaluru. A group of farmers is glued to a television screen in the market courtyard.

Within a few minutes, there is an increase in the decibel levels as farmers talk excitedly to each other.The government on Wednesday unveiled the Karnataka Agricultural Marketing Policy 2013 for "bringing in competition, enhancing capacity building, and ushering in an era of single unified licence market" in the State.

Karnataka govt releases Agri Marketing Policy '13 to boost competition

BANGALORE, September 20, 2013

Karnataka govt releases Agri Marketing Policy '13 to boost competition

The Karnataka government recently released the Agricultural Marketing Policy 2013 in an effort to increase competition.

augment capacity-building and introduce a single unified license market environment across the 30 districts in the stateShamanur Shivashankarappa, the state's horticulture and agro marketing minister, said it will be implemented by developing markets and warehouses this financial year by developing markets.