- Cabinet committee appointed a full-time MD for NAFED for five years.
- The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has appointed Deepak Agarwal as the regular MD of NAFED for a period of five years.
- ACC is responsible for appointing senior officials to key positions in the Central government, public sector undertakings and autonomous bodies.
- National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) was established on 2nd October 1958.
- It was set up to promote Cooperative marketing of agricultural produce to benefit the farmers.
- Its headquarters is in Delhi and regional offices are in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
NAFED was also part of “Operation Greens” where price stabilization measures were implemented to increase farmers’ income.