The Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Produce & Market Committee (APMC) Act, 1997 ceased to exist after the operation of J&K State Reorganization Act – 2019.
The Board will manage and regulate the established Mandis in J&K and remove the operational difficulties faced due to non-existing of statutory mechanism as on date.
In terms of the new mechanism, Director Horticulture Planning and Marketing, J&K to declare any CA Store, Cold Store, Ware House with above 3 ton capacity and cooperatives/FPOs/SHGs, Store centers as sub-yards of Mandis for purpose of doing trade on e-Nam platforms and for making e-payments on the e-Nam Portal.
Director, Horticulture (Planning and Marketing), J&K will be the sole authority to issue unified licenses for carrying out trade in any Mandi in J&K.
It has a provision to allow outside J&K traders to do trade on the e-Nam with the growers and traders of J&K.
For this purpose, the Director, Horticulture (Planning and Marketing), is allowed to recognise the licenses issued by the outside APMCs as valid licenses for doing trade on e-Nam portal on mutual understanding basis with other states/UTs.
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