It is highly likely that public investment in creating new APMC markets and improving infrastructure of APMC markets will fall dramatically in the coming years because of the poor resource position of the central and State governments and the likely fall in revenues of Market Committees of the existing regulated markets. Secondly, given the low density of regulated markets in many States, there was already plenty of scope for private corporate investment in development of agricultural marketing infrastructure. Despite this, the investment by private agribusiness corporations in development of agricultural market infrastructure has remained small. Little private investment has taken place in States that do not have APMC laws or have liberalised APMC laws considerably.
'Political Economy of Agricultural Market Reforms: Analysis of the Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020', Vikalp
