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Explainer: Why are farmers’ crops still being weighed on manual scales in Haryana?

Arhtiyas and rice millers’ reluctance is due to cost factor, operational issues and labour challenges

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The Haryana Government has made it mandatory for arhtiyas (commission agents) and rice millers to use digital weighing machines in paddy procurement, but ground realities reveal that most mandis are still running on old mechanical scales. Here is what you need to know about the importance of reform, and why is there reluctance.

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