INDORE: The traders at the Chhawni mandi have decided not to buy stuff from the farmers from now on in case they find the same to be sub-standard one. Also, they stopped few vehicles, which had been brought by the farmers for sale at mandi, on Tuesday on the same ground.
Talking to ToI, president of Indore Dalhan tilhan Vyapari sangh, NK Agrawal, said, "We found that the stuff being brought by the farmers, at the mandi, was containing impurities like dust, pebbles and stained ones. Hence we asked them to go back. ON this the mandi samiti decided not to purchase any such sub-standard stuff from farmers now on, keeping in view the Food safety and Standards Act."
As a result, the traders could buy merely 150 sacks full of crops like pulses, soybean and chillies at the mandi here on Tuesday. Normally, they buy 20,000 sacks of crops on a daily basis.
Not to mention that Indore's mandi is the biggest mandi in the entire central India, which supplies pulses and other agricultural commodities to various parts of the country. Even some of the traders, who buy their stuff at the mandi also export them to various countries.
Buying directly from farmers eliminates middlemen is a good sign. But farmers should adopt Good Agricultural Practices particularly IPM to reduce pesticide residues which is the main problem in food safety now..
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