Surat: Surat Agriculture Market Produce Committee (APMC) will export the pulp of Kesar and Hapus alphonso mangoes to 7 foreign countries this year. Surat APMC board of management has decided to export the pulp of 900 to 1000 tons of Hapus mangoes to countries including UAE, Russia, Korea, Japan, Canada, USA, and Germany at the start of July this year. Surat APMC chairman and MLA Sandip Desai informed that Surat APMC purchased 900 to 1000 tons of Kesar and Hapus mangoes from the farmers of South...Read More

Gandhinagar: 23 Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMCs) of Gujarat will go for elections from February to May this year. Elections for the APMC were pushed back due to the state assembly elections. Now the dates of these elections have been announced: Two APMC to go for polling in February is Vijapur on February 3rd &  Rajpipla on February 24th.  On March 4th, Anjar APMC will go to polls.  Seventeen APMC will go for the election in the month of April.  Dhandhuk...Read More

Gandhinagar: Under the leadership of its Gujarat unit chief, CR Patil, the saffron party is conquering one cooperative body in the state after another in the recent past. Patil had introduced a mechanism under which only those with party's mandate can contest cooperatives elections. Patil has enforced resignations of several bigwig cooperative leaders in the recent past for holding multiple posts. Only those with party's mandate can contest cooperative election and if someone rebels, he/she is s...Read More

Vadodara: Generally the elections of Agriculture Produce Market Committees(APMCs) are considered small-time events, but victory of Savli APMC by BJP this week is considered historic because the party has won APMC here for the first time after independence. Big wig of local Congress units including former president of APMC Dinshabhai Patel, committee chairman Dr. Pyare saheb, district panchayat member, former director of Baroda dairy have lost the election. Stakes were too high in the election th...Read More