Postrainy Season Sorghum Marketing in India: Constraints and Opportunities
2011
Indian agricultural marketing systems function relatively
well although a number of critical issues impinge on
their efficient functioning. For example, markets in the
hinterland are generally thin, localized and segmented
- smallholders dominate the agricultural system and this
leads to low marketed surplus.
The process of price discovery is often non-transparent;
markets are ‘multi-level’ with many intermediaries,
leading to high transaction/marketing costs, so, to sell
their produce, farmers are dependent on intermediaries
to avail of credit facilities in interlinked markets (credit/
input and output markets). Lack of grading and storage
facilities and lack of information on market intelligence....
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