The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020

[Act No. 21 of 2020]

[24th September, 2020.]

An Act to provide for the creation of an ecosystem where the farmers and traders enjoy the freedom of choice relating to sale and purchase of farmers' produce which facilitates remunerative prices through competitive alternative trading channels; to promote efficient, transparent and barrier free inter-State and intra-State trade and commerce of farmers' produce outside the physical premises of markets or deemed markets notified under various State agricultural produce market legislations; to provide a facilitative framework for electronic trading and for matters connected there with or incidental there to.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-