GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS AND CONTROL IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETING

GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS AND CONTROL IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETING

The government has at various times attempted to regulate and control agricultural marketing. The intention has always been to improve the agricultural marketing in the country. The following are some such regulations and control:

1. Agricultural produce (grading and marketing) Act, 1937: This act provides for the grading and marketing of agricultural and other produce.

2. Standard Weights and Measures (Packed goods) Act 1976: This act protects consumers from the packaging of wrong goods in boxes, labeling of boxes and for packaging of correct weight produce in packaging.

3. Rice Milling Industry (Regulation) Act, 1958: This act regulates the modernization of rice mills and safe preservation of stock.

4. Fruit Product Act: Regulates the manufacture, storage and sale of fruit and vegetable products

5. The prevention of food adulteration Act; 1954: This act prohibits the manufacture, storage and sale of adulterated and wrongly branded food items meant for human consumption

6. The Wheat flour mills Acts: Controls the purchase of wheat, manufacture and disposal of different kinds of wheat products of flour mills and self preservation.

7. The insecticides Acts, 1968: Provides for compulsory registration of all insecticides. It regulates the import, manufacture, transport, storage and use of all pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.

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Ronald Schrimper (2001): Economics of Agricultural Markets. 1^st Edition Prentice Hall: Upper Sadiller River, New Jersey USA. Pg 120 – 135.