Various measures taken by the government to improve agricultural marketing have improved the condition but a lot still need to be done to realise full potential to agricultural sector.
Government is maintaining buffer stocks, providing the facilities of storage but still these storage facilities are not sufficient. Even today more than 10% of goods produced in farms are wasted due to lack of storage.
The infrastructure facilities which are currently available in India are inadequate to meet the growing demand. These facilities need to be improved in terms of quality and quantity.
Except few cooperatives many have received setbacks in last few years because there is inadequate coverage of farmers, lack of appropriate link between marketing and processing cooperatives and inefficient financial management.
Though the government is intervening in the market through various measures, still private traders like money lenders, rural political elites, big merchants and rich farmers pre-dominate agricultural markets.