Shillong May 11: To ease both  consumers and sellers, the Meghalaya government has decided to establish wholesale markets for selling vegetables and other items within Shillong Agglomeration and outside.

Deputy chief minister, Prestone Tynsong told reporters on Monday that  the government has arranged wholesale markets at Regulated Market, MECOFED and Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) at Mawlai Mawïong for vegetables coming from Ri Bhoi district.

Farmers’ market at Mylliem will be also allowed to operate and the deputy commissioner will notify it, Tynsong said.

SRGT Parking Lot Polo, Second Ground Polo and Golf Club Parking Lot for retail outlets for vegetable traders are also  created to ease the citizens especially  within Shillong city.

Umdiengpun football ground at Sadew will be also utilized for selling fruits, fish, betel nut and betel leaf for people of Mawphlang, Sohïong, Mawkriah, Laitlyngkot, Nongkynrih and Pynursla area, he informed.

The ground floor, first floor and top floor of Mawlong Hat parking lot will be also allowed for selling betel nut, betel leaf and dry fish.

Ground floor of Rapsang market and top floor of Anjalee parking lot will be also used for outlet facilities of agricultural produces, Tynsong said, adding that the parking lot at Khlieh Ïewduh was also earmarked as wholesale market for fishes and eggs.

Tynsong also urged local vegetable traders not to encourage bringing vegetables from outside especially when inter-state movement has been sealed, in the wake of farmers complaining that they could not sell their agricultural produces due to the lockdown, whereas vegetables  from outside the state are being brought in.

“We have already said that inter-state movement has been sealed. If vegetables are still coming from outside, it is also the responsibility of all our local traders not to encourage bringing vegetables from outside especially now we are in the season where production of vegetables has started,” Tynsong said.

Now it is the season in Meghalaya for farmers to sell vegetables they have cultivated in their agricultural fields.