A state prospers when its people have employment and they are economically growing. To support its people, the state of Rajasthan has organized open auction of produces. This special Mandi for ‘Vanopaj Laghu mandi’ (special mandi for forest produce) held at Udaipur. This special Mandi began in the presence of MP Arjunlal Meena.
How can Open Mandi Auction be a help?
When the middlemen are involved in selling of forest produce, cultivators earn a meagre amount. In this system, only buyers can earn good profits by selling the goods at bigger mandis. Hence, this open auction Mandi offers a great opportunity to the buyers and cultivators of Rajasthan to deal directly without middleman. Hence, both cultivators and traders can deal for the produce at the reasonable price. In fact, both the parties get more profits by this.
Apart from the above benefit, it is a huge platform for many. From this Mandi, the traders in herbs, traditional medical practitioners, manufacturers of ayurvedic medicines, vaidyas and manufacturers of cosmetics can get all the needed products.
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What Forest produce are traded
In this auction, quintals of herbs and horticulture products are being sold. Herbs and other produces like reetha, aamla, fuhad, ratanjot, white musli and mahua are traded in the auction. From the jungles, pure honey is also sold.
The produces of medicinal plants and gums like kanji, gond, honey and mahua etc also traded in this open mandi of Udaipur.
Is this Platform for Forest produce meaningful?
By this open mandi, tribal cultivators made reasonable returns for their produces. In fact, medicinal plant has been sold for ₹ 5,000-6,000 a quintal now which usually earns ₹ 1200 a quintal. Similarly, mahua which is used to be sold at ₹ 1500/quintal is now sold at 4,000 per quintal. The major profit has been earned in honey. The honey sellers used to earn only Rs 6,000-7,000 per quintal. But, here they make huge profits of Rs 35,000.
What mandi secretary Bhagwan Sahay Jatav say about this new system
“White Musli, a wonder drug for cancer cure and vitality, sold at Rs 1,520/kg while gooseberry fetched Rs 135/kg. Similarly, other produces too fetched them good returns on the first day.”
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