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States press the reform button when pandemic locks agriculture in

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Freeing up of the farm produce market will give the food processing sector better access to raw materials States across India have been speeding up farm sector reforms, prompted by the crippling of supply chains of farm produce and the food processing industry by the covid-19-induced lockdown.

Uttar Pradesh(UP) has announced freeing up of its agriculture market, which will allow farmers to sell from their homes and earn better value for their produce by skipping the wholesale market.

UP, the fifth-largest state economy in the country that depends heavily on agriculture, is embracing decentralisation in the farm sector by amending an over-five-decade-old law governing wholesale markets or mandis.

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