“Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Prices” explores the processes, institutional arrangements, and price mechanisms that move agricultural commodities from the farmgate to end consumers. Topics include market structure, conduct, and performance (SCP), marketing functions, marketing channels and intermediaries, marketing margins and efficiency, external trade (WTO, export/import policies), cooperative marketing societies, state trading, quality certification (AGMARK, Codex), scientific warehousing and FCI operations, and agricultural price policy including Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) and Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Topics Covered
- Agricultural Marketing – Concept, Definition, Scope, and Importance in Economic Growth
- Market Classification – Primary, Secondary, Terminal, Regulated, and Mandi Markets
- Market Structure, Conduct, and Performance (SCP Paradigm)
- Marketing Functions – Exchange, Physical, and Facilitating Functions
- Marketing Channels, Middlemen, and Intermediaries in Agricultural Marketing
- Marketing Costs, Price Spread, Producer’s Share in Consumer Rupee, and Efficiency
- Market Integration – Horizontal, Vertical, and Conglomerate Integration
- External Trade in Agricultural Commodities – Export, Import, and Foreign Trade Dynamics
- World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements on Agriculture (AoA) and EXIM Policies
- Cooperative Agricultural Marketing Institutions and NAFED
- State Trading in Foodgrains – Objectives, Public Distribution System (PDS), and Buffer Stocks
- Quality Control, Standardization, Grading, and AGMARK Certification
- Warehousing – Scientific Storage, Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), and SWCs
- Food Corporation of India (FCI) – Procurement, Storage, Movement, and Distribution
- Agricultural Prices – Fluctuations, Causes, and Instability in Farm Prices
- Administered Prices – Minimum Support Price (MSP), Procurement Price, and Issue Price
- Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) – Cost Concepts and Price Determination
- Futures Trading, Commodity Exchanges, and Agricultural Price Risk Management
File Details
| Title | Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Prices |
| File Name | AECO242 – Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Prices.pdf |
| File Type | PDF Document (.pdf) |
| File Size | 1.02 MB |
| Total Pages | 219 Pages |