Indore: Opposing their inclusion into the Food Safety and Standards Act, the city foodgrain traders have announced not to buy farmers’ produce if it fails to meet up with the norms laid down by the act.
These traders are arguing that they buy and forward the foodgrain to processors so they should not be brought into the ambit of this act, which could subject them to penal provisions once the act comes to force.
There are around 2,000 foodgrain traders in the city who would be buying only the ‘standard’ produce and the task of deciding these standards would rest with the mandi samitis, said ex-president of Anaj Tilahan Vyapari Sangh Sukumal Sethi.
It’s a state wide protest and all the associations representing foodgrain merchants are supporting it, he claimed.
Significantly, the merchants are protesting their inclusion in the act for the last one week, as the act is expected to come to force from February 4.
“We have been brought into the ambit of the act so we would only purchase standard produce which adhere to the act’s norms, as we don’t want our members to face legal action,” Gopaldas Agrawal, president of MP Anaj Dalhan Tilhan Vyapari Mahasangh told dna.
He added that the traders would ask the mandi committees for laying down the parameters specified in the act for standard foodgrain so that the traders could buy proper produce.
He added Indore is a mega fodograin market and selected purchase might affect foodgrain supply chain, if runs for stretched duration.
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