A study of agricultural marketing system with special reference to onion in the Nashik District of Maharashtra

"Of all the things before us, agriculture comes first." Jawaharlal Nehru India has made lot of progress in agriculture since independence in terms of growth in output, yields and area under many crops. It has gone through a green revolution, a white revolution, a yellow revolution and a blue revolution. Today, India is the largest producer of milk, fruits, cashew nuts, coconuts and tea in the world, the second largest producer of wheat, vegetables, sugar and fish and the third largest producer of tobacco and rice. According to National Commission on Agriculture XII Report “agricultural marketing is the process which starts with a decision to produce a suitable farm commodity or product and it involves all aspects of market structure or systems, both functional and institutional, based on technical and economic considerations and includes pre and post harvest operations like assembling, grading, storage, transportation and distribution.”