Agricultural Marketing

What to Do?
What Can You Get?
Eligible Marketing Infrastructure
Where to apply/approach for Subsidy and Loan?

What to Do?

Farmer can get the price information of their produce which is available on Agmark net website www.agmarknet.nic.in or through Kisan Call centre or SMS.
Pull SMS to get information as and when you need, is also available.
Buyer Seller Portal available at www.farmer.gov.in
Harvesting and threshing should be done at appropriate time.
Proper grading, packing and labeling should be done before sale, for better prices.
Transport of produce to proper market/mandi for getting remunerative price.
Storage of produce should be done, for sale during off season, for maximum profit.
Avoid distress sale.
Farmers in a group may form marketing cooperatives for better marketing facilities.
Marketing cooperatives may open retail and wholesale outlets.
Farmers may also operate cold storages and warehouses to store the produce in order to avoid distress sale.

What Can You Get?

S.No	Type of Facility	Category	Subsidy Ceiling				Scheme
S.No	Type of Facility	Category	Rate of Subsidy on Capital Cost	Upto 1000 MT (in Rs./Mt)	More that 1000 to 30000 MT (in Rs./Mt)	Maxi. ( Rs. lakhs)	Scheme
1	(i) For Storage Infrastructure Projects Agril.Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) sub scheme of ISAM	A) NE States, Sikkim, UTs of Andaman & Nicobar and Laksha deep Islands and hilly* areas	33.33%	1333.20	1333.20	400
	(Erstwhile Grameen Bhandaran Yojana)	B) In other Areas For Registered FPOs, Panchayats, Women, Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST) beneficiaries or their cooperatives **/ Self-Help Groups	33.33%	33.33% 1166.55	1000	300
	(Erstwhile Grameen Bhandaran Yojana)	For all other categories of beneficiaries	25%	875	750	225

Criteria for Assistance/Maximum Limit

S.No	Type of Facility	Category	Rate of Subsidy	Max. Subsidy Ceiling (` in lac)	Scheme
	(ii) For other Marketing Infrastructure projects	A) NE States, Sikkim,States of Uttarakhand,Himachal Pradesh,Jammu & Kashmir, UTs of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands, hilly* and tribal areas	33.33%	500	Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM)
	Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) sub scheme of ISAM		33.33%	500
	(Erstwhile Scheme for Development/Strengthening of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure, Grading & Standardization (AMIGS)	B) In other Areas For Registered FPOs,Panchayats, Women farmers/entrepreneurs, Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST) / Entrepreneurs and their cooperatives**	33.33%	500
		2. For all other categories of beneficiaries.	25%	400

*Hilly area is a place at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters above mean sea level.

**SC/ST Cooperatives to be certified by the concerned officer of the State Government

Eligible Marketing Infrastructure

All marketing infrastructure required for post-harvest management
Market user common facilities like market yards etc.
Infrastructure for grading, standardization and quality certification, labeling, packaging and value addition facilities (without changing the product form)
Infrastructure for Direct Marketing from producers to consumers/processing units/bulk buyers etc.
Reefer vans, used for transporting agricultural produce, which are essential for maintaining cold supply chains.

Where to apply/approach for Subsidy and Loan?

Commercial banks, Regional Rural Banks, State Cooperative Banks etc.
National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) for projects by Cooperatives.

To access the Operational Guidelines of the Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM), click here

Source: Department of Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers' Welfare

Last Modified : 3/1/2020

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