Marketing Related Issues
- Agricultural market in India is highly fragmented. With each farmer confined to a single mandi in many products in many states, we currently have thousands of markets across where no arbitrage takes place.
- Agricultural marketing suffers from policy distortions, fragmentation resulting from large number of intermediaries, poor infrastructure, lack of vertical integration and stranglehold of official mandis sanctioned by the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) acts of the states.
- Issues related to price fall under two categories:
- The prevailing marketing arrangements under the conventional APMC acts in the states have meant that the farmer receives a small fraction of the price paid by ....
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