Department of Agricultural Economics, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur – 492 006, Chhatisgarh.
The study has examined the improvement in regulated market infrastructure in the state of Chhattisgarh by collecting secondary data on the number of regulated markets and sub-yards, income, expenditure, arrival of agricultural commodities and amenities available fro the period 2000–01 to 2009–10 from the office of Chhattisgarh State Agricultural Marketing (Mandi) Board. The study has observed that over the years not only the number of regulated market has increased by the infrastructural facilities required for orderly marketing of agricultural produce have also increased. With an increasing trend in arrivals of major crops, the income at regulated markets has also increased which is being ploughed back for further expansion of infrastructural facilities including development of rural roads, etc. Recently, the state has also designed a market network scheme to cover rural areas with collection centres for grains.
