Agricultural Marketing Issues in Telangana: A Study

This paper is based on the primary data and tried to elevate the major challenges facing by the farmer community of Nizamabad district in marketing their produce. There is lack of proper and sufficient storage facilities for the produce. Moreover, these facilities are also bad and unscientific. The varieties of produce are not graded properly and the transport facilities are also highly inadequate. There is a chain of middlemen in marketing. The farmer has no capacity to wait for better prices and forced to sell his produce immediately to clear off the debt. This may distress and weaken sales and leads to miserable living conditions of the farmer community. Non institutional credit is main source of their credit. Various types of charges like Katti, Hamali, Arhas, Tulai, Palledari, Garda etc., were collected in sizable quantity from the farmers. Majority of sales takes place on the advice of middlemen, where the ruling prices were not properly followed. It is the open fact that the farmers suffering with low bargaining power and are in the clutches of middlemen.