Price Discovery and Seasonal Movement of Cauliflower in Agriculture Produce Market of Pune District of Maharashtra

This paper has studied the seasonal movement in trading of cauliflower in Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji agricultural produce market of Gultekdi in Pune district of Maharashtra. The study is based on the data collected from the APMC on monthly arrival of cauliflower in this market and its price during the period October 2004-September 2009. The study has observed through seasonal indices that cauliflower had a fluctuating price throughout the year and there is inverse relationship between its price and supply in the market. The future marketing in cauliflower has been forecasted in terms of its arrival and price using several models. The forecasted price of cauliflower for the year 2009–10 was 558/q on using straight line trend method, 578/q by second degree parabola method and 550/q through exponentially smoothening model.