{"id":13249,"date":"2023-07-20T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T01:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13249"},"modified":"2025-04-02T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:21:18","slug":"who-are-arhtiyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-arhtiyas\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Arhtiyas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Arhtiyas:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arhtiyas&#8221; refers to <strong>commission agents or middlemen in the agricultural sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Primary Functions<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Procurement<\/strong>: Arhtiyas <strong>procure agricultural produce from farmers<\/strong> <strong>either directly<\/strong> from the <strong>farm or at local agricultural markets (mandis).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Financial Services:<\/strong> They often <strong>provide credit to farmers<\/strong> to meet their immediate financial needs, including inputs for the next cropping season or personal expenses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage:<\/strong> Arhtiyas may <strong>offer warehousing facilities<\/strong> for the storage of agricultural commodities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marketing: <\/strong>They <strong>facilitate the sale of agricultural produce to wholesale buyers<\/strong>, such as government agencies or private traders, on behalf of the farmers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Commission<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Arhtiyas <strong>charge a commission for their services,<\/strong> usually a <strong>percentage of the transaction valu<\/strong>e. The commission rates can <strong>vary depending on the region, crop, and prevailing market conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They play a <strong>significant role in the traditional agricultural marketing system<\/strong>, particularly in states like Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>Arhtiyas are an <strong>integral part of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)<\/strong> system in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q)\u00a0What is the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) is a statutory market committee constituted by a State Government in respect of trade in certain notified agricultural or horticultural or livestock products, under the Agricultural Produce Market Committee Act issued by that state government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/india\/bitter-tussle-in-himachal-over-govt-decision-to-sell-apples-by-weight-in-mandis-as-arhtiyas-announce-strike-8379091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bitter Tussle in Himachal over Govt Decision to Sell Apples by Weight in Mandis as Arhtiyas Announce Strike<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arhtiyas refers to commission agents or middlemen in the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}