Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Kalameshwar

In the year 1898, legal Cotton Market Committees were established. In 1935, amendments were made to the Market Act. The most important amendment in the Market Act was granting representation to farmers in the Market Committee. In 1935, farmers got representation. In the same year, the Taluka Cooperative Purchase and Sale Society was established, and farmer representatives began to emerge as leaders.

With the initiative of Sahakar Maharshi Babasaheb Kedar, the Kalameshwar Agricultural Produce Market Committee was established on 02/11/1962. As per the Maharashtra State Agricultural Produce Purchase and Sale (Development and Regulation) Act, 1963, the committee started its actual functioning on 26/09/1969 under the guidance of Sahakar Maharshi Babasaheb Kedar. The committee has now completed 63 years. The first chairman was Mahavirprasad Amgaonkar, a farmers’ representative, who brought the main crop Oranges under the regulation of the committee, and that marked the beginning of the committee’s income. Later, leaders like Chandrashekhar Deshmukh, Madhavrao Suke, Sudhakarrao Dhote (Acting Chairman), Rameshrao Fulare, Arvindji Ramawat, Anilji Dangore, Gunwant Rao Nagpure, and since 2015 till the present, Mr. Babarav K. Patil has been working as the chairman.