Market Intelligence

The agricultural market environment is changing with unprecedented speed and in very diverse ways locally and globally. These dynamics affect farm prices and thereby farm income. The majority of the rural producers are unable to understand and interpret the market and price behaviour to their advantages. Hence, market information and intelligence are crucial to enable farmers and traders to make informed decisions about what to grow, when to sell, and where to sell.

The most important marketing information input required by a farmer in the current scenario is the price intelligence. Successful marketing of high value produce like cotton, chilli and other crops, need to have a fairly good understanding of markets, prices and consumer preferences by the stakeholders. Most farmers still lack a good understanding on these aspects. Keeping this fact in mind, an Agricultural Market Intelligence Centre has been established at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar Hyderabad with the financial support from the Agricultural Marketing Department, Government of Telangana to disseminate timely, comprehensive, current and future price information on agricultural commodities for better decision-making by farming community, traders, firms, researchers and policy makers.

Objectives

• Providing price forecasts before sowing and during harvest of important crops.
• Making available commodity intelligence to all stakeholders including policy makers.
• Providing information about high price markets to producers
• Improving the dissemination of market intelligence.
• Increasing the capacity to absorb and use such market intelligence by all stakeholders.
• Developing commodity market outlook for selected commodities at state level.
• Providing commodity market research reports.

Useful Links

• https://agri.telangana.gov.in/
• http://tsmarketing.in/
• http://agricoop.nic.in/
• https://agmarknet.gov.in/
• https://enam.gov.in/web/
• http://farmer.gov.in/
• https://niti.gov.in/
• http://cacp.dacnet.nic.in/
• https://apeda.gov.in/
• https://nhb.gov.in/