Farm trade needs private wholesale markets, too

The recent direction by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi to chief ministers of the Congress party in various states to exempt fruit and vegetables from the purview of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee Act, or APMC Act, is an important and useful step. Mr Gandhi's intent, he said, was to attack the problem of food inflation, which has become persistent in recent years and has severely constrained macroeconomic policy in addition to causing widespread distress.

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