A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONING OF SELECTED APMCs IN HAVERI DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2018-11-17
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The present study was conducted in Haveri district of Karnataka State. The study
was undertaken to analyse the functioning of Byadgi, Haveri and Ranebennur APMCs in
terms of trend in arrivals and prices of major commodities; structure, conduct and
performance; and constraints. The primary data was collected from 30 farmers, five traders
and five commission agents, from each APMC, resulting in a total sample size of 120
respondents. There was an increasing trend in arrivals of dabbi, guntur and kaddi varieties
of dry chilli, maize, soybean and sunflower while there was a decreasing trend in arrivals
of cotton for the reference period (2008-09 to 2017-18). There was an increasing trend in
prices of all the major commodities in the selected APMCs. All the selected APMCs were
oligopolistic in nature as the Gini concentration ratios were found to be 0.90, 0.85 and 0.88,
respectively. The operational ratios of the selected APMCs were less than 0.50 and there
was a declining trend for the reference period indicating that the operational efficiency of
APMCs has increased. The gross ratios showed a declining trend for the reference period
which was desirable from the performance point of view. The major constraints faced by
the farmers in the selected APMCs were lack of timely market information, lack of
infrastructural facilities and poor maintenance, and delay in payments while the major
constraints faced by traders and commission agents were delay in payment by buyers, lack
of storage facilities and inadequate infrastructural facilities.