Haryana to set-up farmer market in Gurgaon

Chandigarh, Nov 14 (UNI) The Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board has decided to set up farmer markets in Gurgaon and Panchkula for providing an opportunity to farmers to directly sell their produce to the consumers.

Informing this here today, a spokesman of the Board said that the establishment of these farmer markets would help the farmers in fetching optimum prices of their output.

He said that the Board had set a record by connecting grain market of Sirsa district through the on-line system. This was the first grain market of the country to be connected with the on-line system, he added.

He said that under the tenure of the present Haryana government, the Board had got constructed 517 kms of rural roads at a cost of Rs 53 crore.

Besides this, an amount of over Rs 55 crore had so far been spent by the Board on the special renovation of 1041 kms long rural roads and on annual renovation and re-carpeting of 3620 kms long rural roads, he added.

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