DMPQ- Price stabilisation fund.

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The Fund was established with a corpus of 500 crore which aims to establish price stability

through

  1. Promotion of direct purchase from farmers /farmers’ associations at farm gate/Mandi.
  2. Maintaining a strategic buffer stock that would discourage hoarding and unscrupulousspeculation.
  3. Protecting consumers by supplying such commodities at reasonable prices throughcalibrated release of stock.
  • It is a Central Sector Scheme, to support market interventions for price control of perishable

agri-horticultural commodities.

  • The Fund will be managed by Prize Stabilization Fund Management Committee which willapprove all proposals from state government and central agencies and will be maintained asa corpus fund by Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC).
  • Funding –

o The States will have to set up a revolving fund to which Centre and State will contributeequally (50:50).

o The Ratio will be 75:25 in North East states.

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