AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SYSTEM IN TELANGANA STATE – A STUDY

The mere establishment of regulated markets may not solve the problems of agricultural marketing, unless means are devised to ensure their operational efficiency. Agricultural Marketing involves all operations and processes essential to move the raw material from the farm sector to ultimate consumer. The state is endowed with variety of soils, ranging from highly fertile alluvial to very poor sandy soils. The Normal annual rainfall of state is 906 mm. it receives 80 percent of rainfall through south-west monsoon. The objective of the Markets Act is to protect the interests of farmers in the sale of agricultural produce and to ensure remunerative price to them and to protect them from the clutches of unscrupulous traders. Although we say that technology have improved but it has not gone to the rural levels as it is confined to urban areas alone. The need is to adopt improved farm practices and usage of high yielding variety seeds to further enhancing productivity as well as production. The food grants are playing an important role in the agricultural production of Telangana state. It can be observed that in years of low rainfall the net area sown, gross irrigated area, area under food crops and production of food grains is low. Hence, there is need to analyze the last ten years ( i.e., 200304 to 2013-14) food grants productivity in state.