Priority Areas that need Agricultural Reforms

Agricultural Marketing

Issues

• Lack of Storage Facility: There is no proper storage or warehousing facilities for farmers in the villages where they can store their agriculture produce. Every year 15 to 30 per cent of the agricultural produce is damaged either by rats or rains due to the absence of proper storage facilities. Thus, the farmers are forced to sell their surplus produce just after harvests at a very low and un-remunerative price.
• Distress Sale: Most of the Indian farmers are very poor and thus have no capacity to wait for better price of their produce in the ....