APMCs are intended to be responsible for:

♤ ensuring transparency in pricing system and transactions taking place in market area;

♤ providing market-led extension services to farmers;

♤ ensuring payment for agricultural produce sold by farmers on the same day;

♤ promoting agricultural processing including activities for value addition in agricultural produce;

♤ Publicizing data on arrivals and rates of agricultural produce brought into the market area for sale; and

♤ Setup and promote public private partnership in the management of agricultural markets

There are about 2477 principal regulated markets based on geography (the APMCs) and 4843 sub-market yards regulated by the respective APMCs in India.

The typical amenities available in or around the APMCs are: auction halls, weigh bridges, godowns, shops for retailers, canteens, roads, lights, drinking water, police station, post-office, bore-wells, warehouse, farmers amenity center, tanks, Water Treatment plant, soil-testing Laboratory, toilet blocks, etc.