ARRIVALS AND PRICES OF SELECTED AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES IN APMC, KOLHAPUR
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2014
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Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidaypeeth, Rahuri
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The market information relating to market prices and arrivals over a period of time helps the farmers to take decision about the future production pattern and sale of agricultural commodities in the market during specific period. The APMCs were established by state government for regulating the marketing of different kinds of agricultural produce.
Agriculture Produce Market Committee’s help the farmer in disposing of their produce in the market smoothly by reducing the exploitation level and to promote fair trade by providing infrastructural facilities to farmers.
The present investigation was undertaken to study the arrivals and prices selected agricultural commodities in APMC, Kolhapur with the objectives viz., to study the organizational structure of APMC, Kolhapur, to study the trends in arrivals and prices of selected agricultural commodities, to study the seasonal indices in arrivals andprices of selected agricultural commodities and to study the variability in arrivals and prices of selected agricultural commodities. The APMC, Kolhapur was selected purposively for the study. Six agricultural commodities viz., wheat, paddy, onion, potato, groundnut and jaggery were selected on the basis of maximum area under crop and high volume of transaction in the APMC. The secondary data were collected from APMC, Kolhapur for the period of 11 years since 2001-02. The data were analysed with simple statistical tools for fulfilling set objectives. Trends in arrivals and prices, seasonal indices, coefficient of variability, correlation coefficient were estimated by using appropriate statistical technique for arriving at meaningful conclusions.
The study revealed that, organizational structure and composition was established well according to the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act 1963. The open auction method was strictly followed in the market, the overall conduct and law and administrative promptness was seen satisfactory.
The analysis of trends in arrivals and prices revealed that, arrivals of paddy, groundnut, onion, potato and jaggery had increased during the period under study whereas arrivals of wheat decreased in the same period. The prices of all commodities were found to be increased over entire period.The estimated future projections of arrivals for agricultural commodities treaded in APMC, Kolhapur showed that there will be increase in arrivals of paddy, onion, potato and jaggery.
The more variability was observed in the arrivals of wheat, paddy, onion, groundnut and jaggery due to fluctuations in the production and decreased in demand. The inverse relationship between arrivals and prices was noticed for wheat, jaggery and groundnut which indicated that the increase in arrivals lowered the prices of these commodities.
This study suggested that the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC’s) Kolhapur should provide necessary grading and storage facilities which help get higher prices to the producers. The APMC should create facility to judge the quality of jaggery and organize separate auction for different types of jaggery. The officials of APMC, Kolhapur should make sufficient arrangements for trading huge quantum of paddy, potato, onion and jaggery in near future. study also suggests that wheat growers should bring wheat for sell in the APMC, Kolhapur during the month of December to March. The paddy growers shall bring paddy for the sell in the APMC, Kolhapur during the month of August to December. The onion growers shall bring onion for sell in APMC, Kolhapur during September to December. Potato can be brought for sell in APMC, Kolhapur during the month of September to December and the groundnut during April and September to January and in case jaggery for sell in APMC, Kolhapur during August and October to December in order to get good prices for their produce.
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