(1) Subject to such reasonable conditions and such fee as may be prescribed, the Director or the Officer authorized by him may grant a licence to a person to establish a private market yard, for trading of notified agricultural produce and livestock.
(2) The private market yard licensee, or its management committee, by whatever name it is called, may register commission agents and other market functionaries to operate in the licenced private market yard.
(3) The private market yard licensee, or its management committee, may collect user charge on notified agricultural produce and livestock transacted in the private market yard, at the rate ad valorem not exceeding the rate as notified by the Government :
Provided that no user charge shall be collected from agriculturist-seller.
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(4) The private market yard licensee shall contribute, of such user charge collection and registration fee, to the separate “Revolving Marketing Development Fund” maintained by the Director at the rate in percentage at par with Market Committee.
(5) The Director will spend the money from such Fund under sub-section (4) in development of common marketing infrastructure, skill development, training, research and pledge financing and such other activities as will aid in creating an efficient marketing system in the State.
(6) The private market licensee shall formulate a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for conduct of business and activities ancillary thereto in the licenced private market yard.
Establishment of farmer- consumer market yard (direct sale of agricultural
11.(1) Subject to such terms & conditions and fee, as may be prescribed, the Director or the Officer authorized by him, may grant licence to a person to establish farmer-consumer market yard for marketing of specified agricultural produce in retail.
produce by farmer to consumer in retail).
(2) Such farmer-consumer market yard may be established by a person by developing infrastructure, as may be prescribed, and at a place accessible to both farmer(s) and consumer(s):
Provided that the consumer shall not purchase more than such quantity of agriculture produce at a time in this market, as may be prescribed.
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(3) The farmer-consumer market yard licensee may collect the user charge on the sale of agriculture produce from the seller and amount so realized shall be retained by farmer-consumer market yard licensee:
Provided that Government in public interest may from time to time, by notification, put ceiling on the rate of collection of user charge.
Declaring warehouse/silos/ cold storage or other such structure or place as market subyard.