1. “LINKING FARMERS WITH MARKET”
“INTEGRATION OF APMCS:
SHARING EXPERIENCES”
MANOJ RAJAN
Additional Secretary,
Co-operation Department
Government of Karnataka

2. 62 Million Population KARNATAKA AGRI MARKET ECOSYSTEM 01
7TH Largest State 05
35,000 Crore Annual Turnover 02
62 Million Population 06
32 thousand Traders 03
92 Notified Agri Commodities 07
17 thousand Commission Agents 04
157 Main Markets & 354 Sub-Markets 08
152 Main Markets Now Online

3. NATIONAL AGRI-MARKET ECOSYSTEM
Primary markets- Where producer sells
2500 Main APMC market yards,
4500 Secondary market yards
Goods more than Rs. 3 lakh Crore traded annually
Secondary markets – resale, processed sale

4. PREVALING MARKET SCENARIO
No Financial Linkages
Opaque Bidding Process
Information Asymmetry
Indifference to Quality
Fragmented Markets
Low Transparency

5. Karnataka Agricultural Marketing Policy 2013
The policy aims at “Creating hassle free market for the agricultural produce to help the farmers to obtain best price for their produce.”

6. AGRICULTURE MARKET REFORMS
Increase Competition
Transparency
AGRICULTURE
MARKET
REFORMS
Farmer
Empowerment
Improved Market
Access
Market
Automation
Alternate
markets .

7. NEW MARKET STRUCTURE- KARNATAKA MODEL
COMPETITION
TRANSPARENCY
MARKET ACCESS
ALTERNATE MARKETS
Single unified license
From Local to National Level
Small traders to Institutional Buyers
Online Markets- Bidding to e permit
Enhanced in all Market operations
Price discovery
Electronic weighing
Farmer Billing
MIS reports
Improved Access.
Physical- Warehouses as Sub Markets.
Informational- SMS to Call centers.
Financial- Pledge loans to Online payment
APMCs
Warehouses
DPC & Private markets
Contract Farming
FPOS & Co-operatives

8. ReMS : SPECIAL PURPOSE VEHICLE
“A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) with a mandate to operate with cutting edge technology in the agricultural markets in the state, to ensure market efficiency and competitiveness in the agricultural market system for the benefit of farmers and consumers, while making participation of all other market participants sustainable” 

9. ReMS Milestones ReMS Incorporated 2013-14 Number of online markets :
E-permit markets :
Trade value (crores ) :
Traded lots :
Number of commodities :
Assaying in Markets : 3 27
1913 - 52
5645 17 9 3
103
157
13,276 24 37 10

10. 2016-17 Way forward….. All 157 markets online
Establishing Cleaning & grading Units
Awareness programs in 11, villages.
Assaying 40 markets
Farmer’s registration programme target of 30 lakh
Initiate Integrated Logistics
Establish warehouse based sales
Establish Online Payments

11. M P A C T I Increased Arrivals Better Prices
Outside Trader Participation A
More Bids per Lot C
More Share in Consumer Rupee T
Empowered Farmers

12. “Most things, except agriculture, can wait"
- Jawaharlal Nehru
THANK YOU!