Year: 2015 | Month: December | Volume 60 | Issue 4
Analysis of Local Market Institutions in West Bengal and Bihar
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2015.00099.6
Abstract:
The analysis of local market institutions in West Bengal and Bihar reveals that the market for agricultural produce is overwhelmingly dominated by private trade at the village levels. Though there has been modest public sector effort to support agricultural markets through building up of public sector marketing agencies, promoting cooperatives, etc., the fact remains that the market is dominated by private trade in agricultural produce in a largely unorganized manner.
There have been numerous village-level market institutions at work for the marketing of specific commodities, through even greater numbers of trade channels in the marketing chain. Owing to higher number of trade channels in prolonged marketing chains, the producers’ shares in cases of all crops turn out to be quite low, especially for fruits and vegetables.
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