Sino-Indian Relations and EU Development Policies in Post-Conflict Nepal

Chand, Bibek

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“…Banerji and Meenakshi (2004) argued that the regulated marketing system lacks integration and efficiency, causing high level of wastage of produce. Chand (2012) argued that the marketing system has been suffering from inefficiency, policy distortion, poor infrastructure, fragmented marketing channels with no connection between prices paid by consumers and those received by producers. Thus, the APMC Act, introduced to promote fair trade in agricultural commodities, has become the major impediment to the development of agricultural markets.…”

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Institutional Reforms and Spatial Efficiency in Agricultural Supply Chains in India

Ghosh

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This paper reviews the institutional reforms in agricultural commodity markets in India and examines their implications for spatial efficiency in supply chains of the markets. In order to remove inefficiencies in the traditional supply chain, the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act was revised, and a Model APMC Act 2003 was introduced with the provisions for establishing private markets/yards, direct purchase centres, farmers markets for direct sale, contract farming and promotion of public–private partnership in the management and development of agricultural markets. Initiative has been taken to set up a National Agricultural Market as an all-India electronic trading portal to develop a ‘common national market’ for agricultural commodities. The institutional reforms in agricultural marketing system since the early 1990s appear to have contributed towards improving the spatial efficiency in rice and wheat markets. The finding of an increase in the extent of spatial integration of markets after the reforms and the tendency of the prices to move towards a common stochastic trend lend support to the idea of setting up a ‘common national market’ for agricultural commodities. Further reforms in the marketing system with better infrastructure facilities would strengthen market integration and improve efficiency in the supply chains. JEL classification: O13, Q13, Q18.

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Institutional Reforms and Spatial Efficiency in Agricultural Supply Chains in India

Ghosh

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…In the agrarian economy of India, the low level of farm income has been a chronic and significant source of farm distress (Chand, 2017). Prices of agriculture commodities received by farmers are a significant determinant of farmers’ income (Beckman & Schimmelpfennig, 2015; Chand, 2012). Agricultural marketing in India is characterized by pervasive government intervention.…”

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Measurement of Collusion in Open Ascending Price Auctions in Agricultural Commodity Markets

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Kapoor

2021

Studies in Microeconomics

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This paper derives a method of measuring the degree of collusion among the bidders in an open ascending repetitive price auction in agricultural commodity markets in India. This paper first derives the bidders’ behaviour’s theoretical structure and then a measure of collusion formation. Finally, the degree of the cartel has been computed using time series wholesale price data of potato and onion crops. This research’s findings are helpful for the study of the link between the supply of the agriculture commodity and the degree of collusion. Using the proposed method in this research, if the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) measures cartel for each market and publish periodically, it will help farmers choose the right market to sell the produce. The farmers would select the market where the degree of collusion is relatively lower. Identifying different small cartel groups at different times with respective to the supply of the agriculture commodity would help avoid the incidence of distress selling by farmers, which is the main hindrance in developing the farming community in India. JEL Classification: C7,D44,L1,L4,Q1

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“…The efficient agricultural market acts as bridge between the farmers to consumer. Efficient marketing in term of both technical and pricing efficiency ensures the farmers to get better price of their farm produce and also consumers to obtain true worth of the money which maximize social welfare (Chand 2012, Balkrishna et al 2022. The marketing of vegetable crops is inflicted often with high marketing cost and low produces shares.…”

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Study on Marketing Performance and Constraints of Pea (Pisum sativum) Output in High Hills Wet Temperate Zone of Himachal Pradesh, India

2023

IJE

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The purpose of the study is to identify the output marketing channels of pea crop, evaluate the marketing performance and constraints in the marketing. A multi-stage random sampling procedure was employed to select 200 sample farmers. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from primary and secondary sources by using structured questionnaires. The data were analysed using Acharya marketing approach and descriptive statistics. The finding of this study reveals that there are five output marketing channels used by pea growers in the study area, producer-retailer-consumer (1.50%), producer-retailer-consumer (8.00%), producer-commission agentretailer-consumer (59.50%) , local trader-wholesaler-retailer-consumer (19%) and producer-wholesaler-retailer-consumer (12%). The total gross market margin and profit margin was highest when farmers sold pea produce directly to consumers and lowest when they sold pea produce to local traders across channel. It has been observed that producer-consumer Channel was most efficient channel among all five output marketing channels. Lack of all-weather roads followed by lack of market consultancy services and high commission charges during marketing are the major constraints faced by the farmers. Therefore, policy initiatives should aim at increasing farmers access to market, strengthen government extension services, improving market infrastructure, reducing unfair profit distribution and disseminating reliable market information.

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Sino-Indian Relations and EU Development Policies in Post-Conflict Nepal

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Institutional Reforms and Spatial Efficiency in Agricultural Supply Chains in India

Institutional Reforms and Spatial Efficiency in Agricultural Supply Chains in India

Measurement of Collusion in Open Ascending Price Auctions in Agricultural Commodity Markets

Study on Marketing Performance and Constraints of Pea (Pisum sativum) Output in High Hills Wet Temperate Zone of Himachal Pradesh, India

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