4.9. AGMARKNET

AGMARKNET, (Agricultural Marketing Information Network) is a joint venture of the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) and the National Informatics Center(NIC). Currently, it covers 2800 market nodes and 300 commodities and provides information in ten languages. It has increased the efficiency in marketing activities by establishing a nation-wide information network, which provides information on prices, arrivals, availability, trends, analysis, laws etc. These timely information data are helpful to producers, traders and consumers. It has been connected to 670 agricultural produce markets and 40 State Agricultural Marketing Boards and Directorates. Each AGMARK portal of wholesale market provides daily information to AGMARK portals of its respective states, and then each state’s AGMARK portal sends the information to the AGMARKNET portal. The National Information System maintains all of these portals. The food processing units, traders and different village kiosks, to help the farmers in taking the right decisions mainly use these portals.