Sale of notified agricultural produce in markets

(1) All notified agricultural produce brought for sale in the principal market yard shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be sold in the market yard/yards or such other place specified for such produce in the bye-laws: Provided that agricultural produce produced under contract farming shall not be required to be brought into the market yard and shall be sold to any person at any other place who has agreed to purchase it under an agreement. (2) Such notified agricultural produce as may be purchased by licensed traders in the course of commercial transaction from outside the market area may be brought and sold anywhere in the market area as per the provisions of the bye-laws. (3) The price of notified agricultural produce brought for sale in the market yard shall be decided by tender system or open auction method and no deduction shall be made from the price decided for any reason: Provided that the price of such agricultural produce in the market yard for which support price has been declared by the State Government shall not be determined less than the price so declared and no bid shall be allowed to start below the price so fixed. (4) All notified agricultural produce purchased as such shall be weighed or measured by such person and by such process as may be provided in the bye-laws or shall be weighed or measured at any other place specified by the Market Committee for this purpose: Provided that in case of banana, papaya or any other perishable agricultural produce, as the State Government may by notification specify, it shall be weighed, measured or counted, as the case may be, by any licensed weighman at the place where such produce is grown.