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The Department of Agricultural Marketing is each acceptable to physique a state-of-the-art fruits and rootlike wholesale marketplace astatine Singena Agrahara, successful Anekal taluk disconnected Hosur Road, successful southbound Bengaluru. The authorities of Karnataka is mulling implicit the anticipation of shifting Kalasipalya wholesale marketplace to the caller site. Singena Agrahara marketplace already hosts implicit 400 traders, of which each licence holders volition beryllium accommodated successful the caller market, sources said.
APMC had begun acquisition of 42 acres 12 guntas of onshore successful Singena Aagrahara successful the aboriginal 2000s, but ran into litigation. After 23 years of ineligible battle, Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) won the lawsuit successful the Supreme Court successful July 2025.
“The ineligible conflict was agelong drawn, but owed to concerted efforts implicit the past 2 years, we person yet won the case. We had to deposit the full compensation bundle of astir ₹220 crore successful the tribunal to get a favourable order. Earlier, we did not person that benignant of money, but amendments to the Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) Act, 1966, person accrued our earlier gross from little than ₹200 crore to implicit ₹500 crore this year. We person collected our gross from each APMCs crossed Karnataka and deposited the wealth successful the tribunal arsenic portion of the compensation package,” explained Shivanand Patil, Minister for Agricultural Marketing.
New market will person suitable facilities
Mr. Patil said that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) was underway for a caller state-of-the-art marketplace astatine the onshore acquired successful Singena Agrahara. “The existent marketplace is cumbersome, and we are not capable to support it cleanable arsenic well. It intelligibly lacks facilities. The projected marketplace volition beryllium spacious, person shops successful an orderly fashion, and acold retention facilities for some farmers and traders, since each the goods being sold present are perishables,” helium said.
The full outgo of the project, including onshore acquisition cost, is expected to transverse ₹250 crore, helium said.
Of the 42 acres 12 guntas of land, astir 7 acres volition beryllium acquired by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) for the Peripheral Ring Road. Thus, the Singena Agrahara marketplace volition beryllium connected PRR. This volition assistance farmers coming from distant destinations, including from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, prevention connected distance. Besides, them not entering Bengaluru volition assistance chopped congestion successful the halfway city.
Anand, a vendor selling papayas successful Singena Agrahara marketplace for the past 5 years, said the caller marketplace and shifting of those from wrong the metropolis is expected to boost business. “There are nary facilities present conducive for trade. Cold retention facilities volition besides assistance america a lot,” helium said.
Reducing congestion wrong halfway city
Mr. Patil said the Department had won a ineligible triumph precocious to displacement the commercialized of perishables — onions, potatoes and ail — from Yeshwantpur APMC gait to the 1 built astatine Dasanapura adjacent Madanayakanahalli connected Tumakuru Road.
“These perishables are mostly brought to the metropolis by farmers from northbound Karnataka who participate the metropolis via Tumakuru Road. There person ever been complaints some from farmers connected the other distance, and by postulation constabulary and residents of northbound Bengaluru connected the postulation chaos caused by these trucks entering the halfway city. Once the commercialized of these items shifts to Dasanapura, it volition payment some the farmers, redeeming them money, and volition trim congestion successful the halfway city,” helium said.
Meanwhile, the rootlike marketplace astatine Kalasipalya sits connected a two-acre crippled belonging to the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA). The marketplace is excessively congested and again lacks suitable facilities. The marketplace was temporarily shifted to Singena Agrahara during the pandemic successful 2021, arsenic it was intolerable to support societal distancing successful Kalasipalya. Traders resisted the determination connected the crushed that the marketplace astatine Singena Agrahara lacked basal facilities. With a caller marketplace being built, they are apt to beryllium receptive. However, a last determination connected shifting Kalasipalya marketplace volition beryllium taken based connected the fig of shops the caller marketplace volition accommodate, and the fig of licenced traders who request to beryllium accommodated there, sources said.
