HAR KADAM KISAN KI BAROSHA MEIN --COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLICATED INDIAN AGRICULTURE Introduction: India is gifted with rich soils, most suitable climatic conditions and water resources to produce variety of crops throughout the year. Being tropical country with different climatic zones we are in a position to grow variety of fruits round the year and Indian food and fruits taste better due its natural conditions. Due to these advantages, despite huge population, fragmented holdings, lower investments we are able to meet our requirements and by and large recognized as self sufficient country. Green revolution, white revolution, thrust on major irrigation dams soon after independence richly contributed for growth of Indian agriculture. Recent challenges: The impact of inappropriate minimum support prices, lack of timely credit facilities, storage facilities, failure of APMCs, globalization, technology, rising input costs, erratic prices, inconsistent govern...

AGRICULTURE PRODUCE MARKETING – NEED FOR  INNOVATIONS Role of existing APMCs: APMCs are started with a purpose of protecting farmers from distress sale at farm gate to money lenders and traders. Direct sale of Agri produce by farmers at village to any intermediaries, end users is banned and farmers are supposed to bring produce to APMC markets and sell in auction method under the supervision of APMC.   Certain states relaxed the norms and allowed few wholesalers like ITC are allowed to conduct direct purchases under e-choupal platform. Also direct sales to super markets , more trade friendly norms are being initiated in few states. Karnataka is more advanced state as far as APMC reforms are concerned followed by Maharashtra, MP, AP, UP.  IT enabled auction platform was implemented in few mandis through NCDEX and its named as “mandi modernisation program”. Government of India dec...