Institutions related to Agriculutural marketing

The Government has been playing an important role in developing the Agricultural Marketing System in the country.  Department of Agriculture and Cooperation has two organizations dealing with marketing under its administrative control, namely, the Directorate of Marketing & Inspection (DMI) and the National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM), Jaipur.

Directorate of Marketing and Inspection  (DMI)

The Directorate has its Head Office at Faridabad (Haryana), Branch Head Office at Nagpur (Maharashtra) and 11 Regional Offices/ Sub-Offices headed by Dy. Agricultural Marketing Advisers (Dy.AMAs.) at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Guntur, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bhopal, Kochi and Guwahati and the Central Agmark Laboratory at Nagpur.  Besides, there are 34 Sub-Offices and 23 Regional Agmark Laboratories (RALs) spread all over the country as per the details given below:-

Regional Office	Sub-Office	Regional Agmark Laboratories
1.   Delhi	1.  Karnal	1. Okhla, 2.Ghaziabad
2.   Kolkata	1. Patna 2.Bhubneshwar	1.Kolkata 2.Patna       3.Bhubaneshwar
3.   Mumbai	1.Nasik 2.Ahmedabad 3.Rajkot 4.Jamnagar 5.Surat 6.Panaji 7.Pune 8.Sangli 9.Margaon 10.Unjha	1.Mumbai 2.Rajkot 3.Jamnagar
4.  Bhopal	1.Khandwa	1.Bhopal
5.  Chennai	1.Bangalore 2.Mangalore 3.Tuticorin 4.Raichur 5.Virudhunagar 6.Tirupur 7.Bodinayaknur  8.Nagapattanam	1.Chennai 2.Bangalore 3.Mangalore 4.Tuticorin 5.Virudhunagar
6.  Cochin	1.Alleppey 2.Calicut 3.Trivandrum	1.Kochi 2.Alleppey 3.Calicut
7.  Guntur	1.Hyderabad 2.Vishakhapattanam	1.Guntur
8.  Guwahati	1. Shillong	1.Guwahati 2.Shillong
9.   Lucknow	1.Kanpur 2.Varanasi	1.Kanpur
10. Jaipur	Nil	1.Jaipur
11. Chandigarh	1.Jammu 2.Amritsar 3.Abohar 4.Shimla	1.Amritsar

State Agricultural Marketing Boards / Directorates

1. Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Marketing
2. Andhra Pradesh- AGMARKNET
3. Commissionerate of Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, Tamil Nadu
4. Gujarat State Agricultural Marketing Board
5. Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board
6. Himachal Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board
7. Jharkhand State Agricultural Marketing Board
8. Krishi Maratavahini (Karnataka State Daily Market Price Information)
9. Madhya Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board
10. Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board
11. Meghayala State Agricultural Marketing Board
12. Odisha State Agricultural Marketing Board
13. Punjab State Marketing Board
14. Rajasthan State Marketing Board
15. Uttar Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board
16. West Bengal State Agricultural Marketing Board

National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM)

NIAM  has been imparting training to senior and middle level executives of agricultural and horticultural Departments, Agro Industries, Corporations, commodity and apex level cooperatives, commodity Boards, export houses recognised by Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), Commercial banks and non-governmental organisations.  Besides these clients, the NIAM also imparts training to farmers on marketing management.  NIAM  is managed by a Governing Body under the Chairmanship of Minister for Agriculture and an Executive Committee under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.

Visit NIAM website for more details