relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/6423/
title: Postrainy Season Sorghum Marketing in India: Constraints and Opportunities
creator: Rao, P P
creator: Basavaraj, G
creator: Pokharkar, V G
creator: More, S
subject: Sorghum
subject: 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
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/6423/1/MarketBrief_2011.pdf
identifier:   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.