The has decided not to repeal the amendment toKarnatakaAPMC law even though Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last year that the Centre would repeal the three contentious farm laws.
Several farmers bodies had launched protests and laid siege toVidhana Soudhademanding a rollback of theAPMClaw.
The state will continue with Karnataka Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) (Amendment) Act, 2020 that curtails the powers of local APMCs and allows farmers to sell their produce outside APMC premises.
In May 2020, the state government had promulgated an ordinance to amend APMC (Regulation and Development) Act that envisaged opening up the agricultural market, after the Centre suggested it adopt the Model Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2017. The amendment was enacted in January 2021.