info:oai:icrisat:6423info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:oai_dc http://oar.icrisat.org/6423/ Postrainy Season Sorghum Marketing in India: Constraints and Opportunities Rao, P P Basavaraj, G Pokharkar, V G More, S Sorghum Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics 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.... International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 2011 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en 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.