Agricultural Marketing Law Notes | B.B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) Semester 5 | SPPU | munotes

Contents

Module 01 Basic Concepts of Agricultural Marketing and Model Act

1. Agricultural Marketing in India: Methods, Defects and Government Measures 1
2. The Concept of a Market, and the Classification and Types of Agricultural Markets 5
3. The Model Act on State Agricultural Produce Marketing: Background, Objects and Salient Features 9

Module 02 The Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 1963

1. The Maharashtra APMC Act 1963: Objects, Application and Definitions 13
2. The National Integrated Produce Market and Electronic Trading 18
3. Direct Marketing, Private Markets and Farmer-Consumer Markets 22
4. The Contract Farming Agreement 26
5. The Regulation of Marketing of Agricultural Produce, and Licences 30
6. The Constitution of Market Committees 34
7. The Powers and Duties of a Market Committee 38
8. Cost of Supervision, Officers and Servants, and the Market Fund 42
9. Trade Allowances Prohibited, and the State Agricultural Marketing Board 46
10. Control of Market Committees, and Penalties 50

Module 03 Legislation on Warehousing, Food Product Export, Grading and Marketing - Introduction, Objects and Reasons and Salient Features of the Laws

1. The Warehousing Corporations Act 1962 55
2. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act 1985 59
3. The Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act 1937 63

Module 04 The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001

1. The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act 2001 68
2. The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Authority and Its Functions 73
3. Registering a Plant Variety: Who May Apply, the DUS Tests, Opposition and the Certificate 76
4. Section 26 and the Gene Fund 80
5. Surrender and Revocation of the Certificate, and Rectification and Correction of the Register 85
6. Section 39: Farmers’ Rights 89
7. Compensation to Communities and the Compulsory Licence 94
8. Infringement of Plant Variety Rights, and the Relief 98
9. Appeals under the Plant Varieties Act: the Appellate Tribunal 101

Module 05 Relevant Provisions under the National Food Securities Act, 2013

1. The NFSA: The Entitlements of Households, Women and Children 104
2. The NFSA: Grievance Redressal, Obligations, Transparency and Accountability 116

Module 06 Agricultural Insurance in India: an Overview

1. Indian Agriculture, the Farming Community, and Farmers' Risks 129
2. Crop Insurance in India: The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana 133
3. Crop Insurance Underwriting 140
4. Crop Insurance Claims 147
5. The Problems Associated with Crop Insurance 155
6. The Unified Package Insurance Scheme, and the Earlier Crop Insurance Schemes: CCIS, ECI, FIIS and NAIS 161