Agricultural regulated markets have been playing a pivotal role in the procurement of farm produce. Punjab stateaccounts for about six per cent of the total regulated markets in the country. With the rising agricultural production andgrowth of regulated marketing facilities, Punjab has become one of the leading states in development of marketing infrastructure and facilities for orderly marketing of agricultural produce. in the best interests of both producers and

consumers. Basic infrastructural facilities like pucca auction platforms, parking, drinking water, electricity, mandi lights, internal roads, rest houses, toilets, bank and post office etc. were present in almost all the markets. Market information system was quite efficient in all the sampled markets. Thus all the markets are performing well on physical as well as financial front and the number, capacity and existing infrastructure of the regulated agricultural markets in the state comfortably meets the requirements of the increasing farm produce in the state. Nearly half of the total expenditure incurred by the Punjab State Agricultural Marketing Board during 2011-12 was for the infrastructural development in the agricultural markets. The study concluded that n efficient agricultural marketing system can be evolved by improving, strengthening and optimally utilising the existing market infrastructure in the state.