Maharashtra: APMC shuts Manjari & Khadki veggie sub-markets

TNN | Updated: Apr 9, 2020, 06:56 IST

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PUNE: The Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) has shut two sub-markets at Manjari and Khadki to avoid overcrowding of people.
The markets receive bulk supply of vegetables and fruit and will be reopened after adequate arrangements to ensure social distancing and less footfall.
Over 100 pickup vans and tempos supply vegetables and fruits to the Manjari and Khadki sub-markets every day. All the produce that reach the two markets is supplied to local retail outlets. APMC sources both the markets had played a crucial role in maintaining the supply of vegetables in the city’s suburbs when the main market at Gultekdi was closed because of suspension of activity by the traders and commission agents.
KCB to open market
After a three-day closure of its bazaar area following the detection of a Covid-19 positive case, the Khadki Cantonment Board has decided to open its vegetable market at a new place on an open plot on the old Pune-Mumbai highway from Thursday. The new market will operate from 7am to 1pm every day. Meanwhile, the commission agents’ association at the Gultekdi Market Yard on Wednesday requested the APMC to close the unit following the rise in the number of coronavirus cases.