Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Rythu Bazaar

I hold the concept of "Rythu Bazaars" in high esteem. The presence of these even today after Chadrababu's regime (it is one of the good schemes implemented by the TDP government led by N. Chandrababu Naidu) shows the success of the scheme. What it did was to allow the farmers to directly sell their produce in the urban markets bypassing the network of distributors/resellers/brokers. This helped both the producers and consumers as the consumers could get it for lesser than they usually paid, and the producers could get more money for their produce than they used to get from the brokers. For this he even arranged transportation (APSRTC Buses, the state-run public transport system). I am not sure if even today they are in-place. Of course it is only limited to those areas which are closer to urban markets but still it is effective for that sector.

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