Describe any four suggestions to improve agriculture marketing.
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- Creating orderly and transparent marketing conditions for regulation of markets.
- Providing physical infrastructural facilities like roads, railways, godowns, cold-storage, warehouses etc.
- Co-operative marketing to help in realising fair price for the farmer's product. (The success mantra of the milk co-operatives at Anand in Gujarat stands a testimony to the important role of co-operatives in an economy but in the recent past, the co-operatives have received a setback.)
- Policy instruments like.
- assurance of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for agricultural products.
- Maintenance of Buffer Stocks of wheat and rice by FCI.
- Distribution of the essential food grains and sugar through the system of Public Distribution i.e. P.D.S.
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