Role of Agricultural Produce Market Committee in Marketing Development of Bihar

Abstract

For long, agriculture has been associated with production of crops. However, as the economic development proceeded, many other occupations allied to farm production began to be considered as a part of agriculture. At present, agriculture includes, besides production of crops, forestry, and animal husbandry. This is the extension of coverage of the word ‘agriculture’ on the horizontal level. Vertically too, agriculture covers something more than mere farming. Marketing, processing, and distribution of agricultural products are now accepted as a part of agricultural business. Some other off-farm activities like the supply of farm inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, credit, insurance, veterinary services etc. are also considered to be a part of agri-business. The scope of agriculture as such is much wider than simply being limited to the use of some inputs on a farm to produce crops.