The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) appointed Deepak Agarwal, a 2000-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer, as the regular MD of NAFED for a period of five years. 

• An order to this effect was issued by the ACC.
• The order came days after the ACC entrusted charge of the post to an official of the Ministry of Cooperation, a week after Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s decision to assign the additional charge of MD, NAFED, to an Agriculture Ministry official.
• His leadership is anticipated to further strengthen NAFED’s initiatives aimed at ensuring fair prices for farmers and promoting cooperative-based agricultural marketing across the country.
• This interim setup was established shortly after Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed the assignment of the role to an Agriculture Ministry official, as the search for a permanent candidate was ongoing.

About NAFED

National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd.(NAFED) was established on the auspicious day of Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October 1958. Nafed is registered under the Multi State Co-operative Societies Act. Nafed was setup with the object to promote Co-operative marketing of agricultural produce to benefit the farmers. Agricultural farmers are the main members of Nafed, who have the authority to say in the form of members of the General Body in the working of Nafed.

Current chairman of NAFED is Jethabhai Ahir, Chairman.