Navi Mumbai grain traders end strike after govt calls off proposed Bill

Get assurance that proposed law to allow sale of produce outside APMC yards would be withdrawn

Grain and spice traders at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) yard at Navi Mumbai called off their two-day strike on the proposed law to allow farmers to sell produce out of the regulated wholesale markets. Cooperative minister Subhash Deshmukh and housing minister Prakash Mehta met the protesting traders, loaders (‘mathadis’) and transporters at Vashi and said the proposed Bill would not go ahead.

“Following these ministers’ assurance, we have decided to call off the strike and resume our business from Thursday,” said Mohan Gurnani, president, Federation of Associations of Maharashtra. A year after de-listing fruit and vegetables from mandi