Who has to sign an NCNDA? The broker/s or the end seller or buyer?
NCNDA stand for Non-circumvent and Non-Disclosure Agreement. "In a very short explanation, It is a document to prevent those parties involved to disclose and circumvent the relevant parties to reach the end buyer or end seller." Yes, but WHO SIGNS IT? Thank you...
Can we avoid a middleman in the agriculture sector in India?
Middlemen are always thought to be problem in Indian agriculture. But I think them as Necessary Evil.Why necessary ?It is not possible for farmer to sell large quantities of farm produce in retail to large number of people.e.g. A farmer with 10 tonnes tomatoes can't sell it in retail. It will rot by the long time it's soldMost of middlemen come from farming background or are farmers itself.These farmers collect various farm produce and sell in market thereby saves on logistics costs. They collect small quantities of farm produce like soyabean /maize in quintals and sell in tonnes to industries. e.g. a farmer can't afford to transport and sell 10 quintals soyabean to oil mill.The payment by middlemen is mostly prompt and at door step. While most of farmer who sell farm produce to govt MSP purchase centres has to wait for long time and make rounds to the respective offices.Middlemen like supermarkets do sorting,packing and branding which farmers can't afford.Some farmers directly sell their farm produce at farmer's market in parts of Maharashtra. These farmers slowly became middlemen as they can't sell limited variety of fruit and vegetables at stalls .In case of hotel supplies middlemen supply on 2–3 months credit but pay farmer cash at time of purchase.Co-operative could be good middlemen system in India but corruption did not allow them to grow with exception like AMUL.Why Evil ?Middlemen charge handsome dalali and make money .They charge farmers for shortages ,damages,cash payments,weighing and measuring farm produce. It can be extra charged than actual. Also keep good margines as payment by hotels, restorants, catering is late .Many times farmers of banana , grapes etc. are cheated by other state foreign dalals and go absconding. And farmers never got payments.But for these reasons it's impossible to remove the important chain in the marketing setup. So middlmen will exist and change there name like supermarket ,agents, marketing agency etc.The only solution is co-operative of farmers provided it works without corruption by working body.Picture source Google.