Agricultural Marketing

What to Do?
What Can You Get?
Eligible Marketing Infrastructure
Where to apply/approach for Subsidy and Loan?

What to Do?

Farmer can get the price information of their produce which is available on Agmarknet.
Website (www.agmarknet.nic.in) or through Kisan Call Centres or SMS.
Pull SMS to get information as and when you need, is also available.
Buyer Seller Portal available at www.farmer.gov.in/buysell.htm
Harvesting and threshing should be done at appropriate time.
Proper grading, packing and labeling should be done before sale, for better prices.
Transport of produce to proper market/mandi for getting remunerative price.
Storage of produce should be done, for sale during off season, for maximum profit.
Avoid distress sale.
Farmers in a group may form marketing cooperatives for better marketing facilities.
Marketing cooperatives may open retail and wholesale outlets.
Farmers may also operate cold storages and warehouses to store the produce in order to
avoid distress sale.

What Can You Get?

S.No	Type of Facilities	Category	Subsidy ceiling				Scheme
1			Rate of Subsidy Scheme On Capital Cost	Up to 1000 MT (in Rs. /MT)	More than 1000 to 30,000 MT (in Rs./MT)	Maximum (Rs. Lakhs)
	(i) For Storage Infrastructure projects- Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) sub scheme of ISAM (Erstwhile Grameen Bhandaran Yojana)	A) NE States, Sikkim, UTs of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands and hilly* areas	33.33%	1333.2	1333.2	400	ISAM
		B) In other Areas For Registered FPOs, anchayats, Women, Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST) beneficiaries or their cooperatives**/ Self-Help Groups	33.33%	1166.55	1000	300
		For all other categories of beneficiaries	25%	875	750	225
	Criteria for Assistance/Maximum Limit
S.No	Type of Facilities		Category		Subsidy ceiling		Scheme
S.No	Type of Facilities		Category		Rate of Subsidy	Maximum (Rs. Lakhs)	Scheme
1	(ii) For other Marketing Infrastructure projects Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) sub scheme of ISAM (Erstwhile Scheme for Development/Strengthening of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure, Grading & Standardization (AMIGS)		A) NE States, Sikkim, States of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, UTs of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands, hilly* and tribal areas		33.33%	500	ISAM
			B) In other Areas For Registered FPOs, Panchayats, Women farmers/entrepreneurs, Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) / Entrepreneurs and their cooperatives**		33.33%	500
			For all other categories of beneficiaries.		25%	400

*Hilly area is a place at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters above mean sea level.

**SC/ST Cooperatives to be certified by the concerned officer of the State Government.

Eligible Marketing Infrastructure

All marketing infrastructure required for post-harvest management
Market user common facilities like market yards etc.
Infrastructure for grading, standardization and quality certification, labeling, packaging and value addition facilities (without changing the product form)
Infrastructure for Direct Marketing from producers to consumers/processing units/bulk buyers etc.
Reefer vans, used for transporting agricultural produce, which are essential for maintaining cold supply chains.

Where to apply/approach for Subsidy and Loan?

Commercial banks, Regional Rural Banks, State Cooperative Banks etc.
National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) for projects by Cooperatives.
Detailed information is available in Operational Guidelines of the Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) on website www.agmarknet.nic.in

Source: Department of Agriculture & Cooperation

Last Modified : 3/1/2020

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