Apmc Market — Attraction in Bengaluru

BENGALURU: Every day, Ramani buys one bag of garlic at Bangalore’s Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) market yard in Yeshwantpur and sells it in small quantities to small buyers. It’s an investment of Rs 5000 for her, a senior citizen. She makes a small profit on it and she gets by on it. Once she has sold her bag, she goes back to the market to buy another and thus continues her cycle of existence. But things have changed for Ramani since Nov. 8 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government announced demonetization of high-value currency notes. It resulted in cash being sucked out of the market and buyers have become tight-fisted with the cash they have in hand. Ramani has been stuck with a bag of garlic she bought 25 days ago, for credit from a stockist. “I used to sell a bag a day,” she said when New Indian Express visited the market yard on Thursday, a month after demonetization kicked in. Her daughter Uma works in the same market as a daily wage worker. She used to make Rs 300 sifting onion at a stockyard. Work has been hard to find in the past one month. “I have not been able to make Rs 100 a day. It is a very tough life for me right now,” said Uma. The APMC market is said to be south India’s biggest agricultural market. Spread over 93 acres houses 1,980 wholesale shops that employ nearly 2,000 workers and trade in a mind-boggling variety of things Indians need every month: onions, garlic, potatoes, rice, atta, sugar, pulses, chillies, jaggery, coconuts, you name it. One month of demonetisation has left the bustling market wobbling, its business down 60 per cent from Rs 50 crore a day. Nearly 60 per cent of the business used to be done...

Its near Shankar Nagar bus stop, we the residents of this place n all retail vegetables vendors n vegetable cart vendors throng to this place from morning 5am to 9,10 am n its so crowded, you get fresh vegetables directly from the farmers, we get all vegetables at very cheap rates as less as 20₹ per kg to 40₹ / maximum 60₹ per kg few items lemons rs 1₹ during other seasons n 3 for rs 10 in summer... Usually house wives go to market after 10 am so there will not be heavy rush, also you get all types of green leafy vegetables for rs 5,10,15.... This is the best place to buy a weeks vegetables n also fruits from apmc vegetables market but there's n absolutely cleanliness here, evey where you can see waste vegetables , tomatoes thrown, even Bbmp, or corporation is not looking into the matter, I talked to the local Corporator but the issues not solved. I will post the photos...

Earlier vegetable market now raw items market....Lobby of the politicians and rich people in name of development shifted the vegetable vendors or market from here to outside Bangalore near to nelamangala. Don't know who will power to swallow this place in later stages as it is in prime location near to all transport accessibility. In the name of development rich people will make money and govt will provide all the facilities.lets see the who will make progress is it govt or middlemen...