Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

A. P. Kulkarni

Abstract

The establishment of regulated markets in India has served the basic need of a source of prices and other data at the level of primary oi assembling markets. Basically, these markets are formed to provide better marketing facilities to farmers and control the malpractices of the traders. Their working is governed both by the State Marketing Acts and by their by-laws. These legal provisions require that Market Committees to collect and maintain various kinds of information for the smooth working of the markets.

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A. P. Kulkarni

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IN the following analysis, attention is given to the study of the influence of various factors affecting the coarse of marketing of groundnut in three regulated markets in Maharashtra. The selected markets are Barsi (Sholapar District), Dhulis (DhuUa District) and Karad (Satara District) and the period of analysis is of ten years between September 1949 and August 1959. The year considered is the marketing year between September and August.

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A. P. Kulkarni

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This is an experimental analysis of prices of a food crop as recorded in a regulated market. The selected centre is Ghoti which is a major regulated market for paddy in the Igatpuri taluka of the Nasik district in Maharashtra. The food crop selected is paddy and the variety considered is Gari Kolapi, the most important variety accounting for about 68 per cent of total sales of paddy in the market yard.

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