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PANAJI
Goa’s agriculturists and horticulturists who generally trade their produce by directly routing through local channels beyond Goa’s borders and also bring in produce from outside the State without formal registration or paying the stipulated fees are now being clamped down by the Goa Agricultural Marketing Board.
‘Flying squads’ are being constituted by the Goa Agricultural Marketing Board to check what it calls “evasion” of market fees for trading in commodities like coconut, coconut oil, betelnut, cashew nut, banana, papaya, pineapple, chikoos, chillies, brinjals, sweet potatoes, milk, ghee, butter, mangoes, poultry, eggs, flowers and watermelon.
A notice issued by the secretary of the GAMB headquartered at Arlem-Raia, said instances of traders dealing in
these commodities illegally without registration under the provisions of the Goa
Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development & Regulation) Act, 2007 and “evading market fees” have come to the notice of the Board.
Gawade further said in the notice published in the local media that market fees are collected by the Board at all its yard offices in Ponda, Sanquelim, Mapusa, Curchorem, Canacona and Valpoi for their respective jurisdictional areas.The Board has constitued ‘flying squads’ to detect such illegal trading in the mentioned commodities and recover the stipulated fees.
Traders dealing in these “notified commodities” shall pay the required market fees at the check-posts or at the yard offices and failure to do so would attract penal fines, Gawade added in the notice.
The move is seen as an attempt by the Board to check price manipulations of these fast moving commodities and virtually essential in the day-to-day living of Goans.
