Kerala farmers and national spot exchange !!

The expectation of farmers while carrying on agricultural activities is to be able to get a reasonable return on the time and money invested by him. But the structure of agricultural markets as they exist today involves a number of intermediaries and therefore, the producers share in the consumer rupee is small. Usually the farmer (main producer) exits from the scene after transacting in the primary market and cannot be able to derive the advantage from the price increase after the processing and packaging its produce. It is observed that only when the commodity is aggregated, processed and branded the value addition occurs. for more click here