Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav said on Thursday that the government was planning to create posts of marketing managers to market products of fisheries and other allied departments.
The proposal was part of the efforts to ensure effective market linkages to the products, which were hitherto not available. In addition, the government had finalised tenders for 100 mobile veterinary clinics, at least one each for each constituency and these clinics would be operational in the next couple of months.
The Minister, who spoke to reporters after a meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee constituted to study the problems of fishermen, sheep rearers and related communities, said that the government had resolved to take firm action against the middlemen whose presence was denying remunerative prices to these communities. “The markets in some areas still have the presence of the middlemen. We have decided to crack down on them, if necessary by invoking the provisions of the Preventive Detention Act to ensure that farmers secure remunerative prices,” he said.
A survey would be commissioned to enumerate people dependent on fisheries and other animal husbandry products to ensure that members of these communities including fisherfolk, Mudirajs, Yadavs, Kurumas and others were made members in the existing market committees. A study had also been taken up to ascertain the prices of fisheries and other products in different markets to make sure these communities were benefited with the pricing mechanism.
