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Farmer
s
Panchayat/villag
e
Level
information
Center

APMC market having IT support with Distribution center
Supermarket
Computerized auction system & Ware- (taluka or district level)
or hotels Housing facility for fruits & Vegetables authorized by APMC
which does information
Packaging & inventory
management
Distributers at local
mandi’s authorized
By APMC Producer
flow
Information
Consume
rs Flow
Customer flow
APMC e-market having IT support: This is located venture of Karnataka government and NCDEX Spot
nearby wholesalers, retailers & consumers in urban Exchange Limited and has emphasized the importance
areas. This facility should be directly connected with 20 of leveraging technology in agriculture marketing
to 30 distribution centres (taluka or district level) and system. The ReMS claims to offer complete technology
distributers at local mandis in city areas authorized by and management solution for modernizing markets in
APMC authorities. Key roles of e-market are state & operating the markets at par with international
online/offline financial transactions between local practices. The iAgriMarC APMC Management Software
mandi distributers, supermarkets, hotels and APMC Suite is aimed at automating the entire Gate-to-Gate
markets and directly transferring payment to farmer’s operations as well as check-post management and
bank account. According to market conditions, APMC outside-mandi purchases of APMC mandi's. The base
market knowledge center provides guidance in terms of product is modeled as per the ‘Agriculture Produce
crop selection for next seasons. Collect demand of Markets Law’, 1961 passed by the central government of
products from city distributors and send to farmers via India. The unified market has integrated some 51
distribution networks in district and city level and markets so far and aims at covering all the 155 main
develop yearly pattern of demand for each agricultural market yards as well as 354 sub-yards of Karnataka
product, based on APMC data center which is having state. From the day of launch (February 22, 2014), 7.5
farmer’s crop production data and consumption lakh lots of trading has been done on the platform with
pattern of products in cities. 45 lakh bids being made with total transactions on
platform of worth Rs. 15000 crore It has accommodated
And last is Distributers at local mandi’s authorized by
lakhs of farmers, 31473 traders & 17149 commission
APMC, this facility is located in cities and authorized by
agents for all the 92 regulated commodities.
APMC market. Key role is sending weekly/ monthly
forecasting demand pattern data for each agricultural ‘Mathadi Kamgar Act’ is eliminated by Maharashtra
product of consumers in city of agricultural products to state government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
APMC e- market data center. These were the formally launched a ‘National Agriculture Market’
requirements of infrastructure for new proposed (NAM) portal on 13th April 2016, to enable 21 mandis
design. Apart from this there are different government across 8 states attempt e-trading on a pilot basis. The
initiatives in agricultural product supply chain system. chosen mandis will be able to connect with other
mandis within the same state, but not at a national level
Recently, Karnataka government raised a major issue in
at the moment. These government initiatives support
the agricultural marketing sector by establishing
our proposed model.
10 ‘Rashtria e-Market Services Limited’ (ReMS), a joint