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Postrainy Season Sorghum Marketing in India: Constraints and Opportunities

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Title Postrainy Season Sorghum Marketing in India: Constraints and Opportunities
 
Creator Rao, P P
Basavaraj, G
Pokharkar, V G
More, S
 
Subject Sorghum
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description 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....
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2011
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6423/1/MarketBrief_2011.pdf
Rao, P P and Basavaraj, G and Pokharkar, V G and More, S (2011) Postrainy Season Sorghum Marketing in India: Constraints and Opportunities. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India.