What are the mandi licence fees in UP?

UP mandi licence fees are set by notification and vary by licence category and Mandi Samiti, so there is no single statewide figure. Ask your Samiti for the current fee for your specific category and the notification it is issued under, along with the renewal period and renewal fee.

Who needs a mandi licence in Uttar Pradesh?

Under the UP Krishi Utpadan Mandi Adhiniyam 1964, a licence is generally required to trade notified agricultural produce within a notified market area — including traders (vyapari), commission agents (arhtiya), and depending on category, processors, warehouse operators and weighmen.

Where do I apply for a UP mandi licence?

Applications and renewals run through the Uttar Pradesh e-Mandi portal at emandi.up.gov.in. Orders, notifications and the list of mandis are published by the State Agricultural Produce Markets Board at upmandiparishad.upsdc.gov.in.

What is a Unified Licence in UP?

A Unified Licence allows a single licence to cover trading across multiple market areas rather than requiring a separate licence for each mandi. If you trade across more than one Mandi Samiti it is worth asking about specifically, because it changes both the cost and the paperwork.

Is the mandi licence fee the same as mandi shulk?

No. The licence fee is what you pay to be permitted to trade in a notified market area. Mandi shulk is the ad valorem levy charged on the value of produce actually traded. They are notified separately, paid separately, and must be tracked in separate ledger heads — as must UP’s Nirashrit Gau-Vansh cess.

How many regulated mandis are there in Uttar Pradesh?

Uttar Pradesh operates more than 251 principal regulated markets and 468 sub-yard markets under the Uttar Pradesh Krishi Utpadan Mandi Parishad.

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Short answer: Trading in a notified UP market area requires a licence from the Mandi Samiti under the Uttar Pradesh Krishi Utpadan Mandi Adhiniyam, 1964. Applications and renewals run through the state e-Mandi portal. Uttar Pradesh operates more than 251 principal regulated markets and 468 sub-yards, and fees are set by notification — so the amount depends on your licence class and your Samiti, not on a single statewide number.

Why there is no fee table on this page. We could not confirm current licence and renewal fees from an official UP source at the time of writing. Licence fees are notification-driven and vary by licence category. Publishing a plausible-looking number that turns out to be wrong would cost you more than the two minutes it takes to ask your Samiti — so this page tells you exactly what to ask for instead.

Who needs a licence

Under the 1964 Adhiniyam, the Mandi Samiti regulates trade within its notified market area. A licence is generally required to operate in that area as a:

Vyapari (trader) — buying notified agricultural produce
Commission agent (arhtiya) — selling on behalf of farmers
Processor, warehouse operator or weighman, depending on category

The licence is what makes you a recognised participant: it ties your transactions to the Samiti's records, and it is what the Samiti checks against when reconciling mandi shulk collections.

Where it happens

What	Where
Licence application & renewal	emandi.up.gov.in
Mandi Parishad — orders, notifications, mandi list	upmandiparishad.upsdc.gov.in
Governing law	UP Krishi Utpadan Mandi Adhiniyam, 1964
Scale	251+ principal markets, 468 sub-yards

The Unified Licence

UP participates in the unified licence framework, which allows a single licence to cover trading across multiple market areas rather than requiring a separate licence per mandi. If you trade across more than one Samiti — common for anything moving between production and consumption centres — this is the specific thing to ask about, because it changes both cost and paperwork materially.

What to ask your Mandi Samiti

Take this list. It gets you a definite answer in one visit rather than three:

Which licence category applies to my business — vyapari, commission agent, processor?
What is the current fee for that category, and under which notification?
What is the renewal period and the renewal fee?
Is any security deposit or bank guarantee required, and is it refundable?
Am I eligible for a Unified Licence, and what does it cover?
What returns must I file, at what frequency, and in what format?
What are the penalties for late renewal, and is there a grace period?

Question 6 is the one traders most often skip and most often get caught by. A licence is not a one-time transaction — it carries ongoing filing obligations, and the Samiti reconciles those filings against mandi shulk.

Licence and mandi shulk are separate things

A common confusion worth settling: the licence fee is what you pay to be permitted to trade. Mandi shulk is the ad valorem levy on the produce you actually trade. They are notified separately, paid separately, and reconciled separately.

UP also levies the Nirashrit Gau-Vansh cess alongside mandi shulk as a distinct line. All three — licence fee, mandi shulk, cess — need separate ledger heads. Rates and mechanics for the levies are in our UP mandi tax rates guide.

Keeping the records the Samiti will ask for

Because a licence carries filing obligations, what matters is being able to produce transaction records that reconcile against what the Samiti already holds. That means every sale carrying its commodity, quantity, value and the shulk computed on it — retrievable by date range, not reconstructed from a bahi at the last minute.

MandiGrow keeps mandi shulk and cess as separate reportable heads and can export a date-ranged transaction summary in the shape a Samiti reconciliation needs. See mandi software for Uttar Pradesh.

Corrections

If you have current UP licence fee figures with a notification reference, send them to support@mandigrow.com and we will add them here with attribution and a revision date.