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The Government
of India, Ministry of Agriculture launched a scheme to
develop Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure by inducement
of private and cooperative sector investments; strengthen
existing agricultural marketing infrastructure; promote
direct marketing; provide and promote infrastructure
facilities for grading, standardization; promotion of pledge
financing and marketing credit; introduction of negotiable
warehousing receipt system; and promotion of forward and
future markets so as to stabilize market system and increase
farmers' income. To make this scheme a success, the National
Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Jaipur, has been
assigned the task of publicity, awareness and training of
the Scheme.
In the Capital Investment Subsidy for Development/
Strengthening of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure,
Grading & Standardization scheme, stakeholders were
identified and work for publicity, awareness and training
initiated.
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