The Long road to transformation of agricultural markets in India: Lessons from Karnataka

Nidhi Aggarwal (), Sargam Jain () and Sudha Narayanan
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Abstract: This paper examines Karnataka's pioneering agricultural output marketing reforms with the twin goals of assessing the state and challenges of implementation and to glean lessons from Karnataka's experience for India's e-National Agricultural Market (e-NAM). Through a field study of ten mandis across the state, we find that while Karnataka has been consistently pushing through with reforms, in the context of deeply entrenched relationships between farmers, traders and com- mission agents, the challenges of deeper reforms are significant. We argue that Karnataka's experience suggests that agricultural market reform in India rests on three pillars - institutions that establish the rules of the game, incentives for agents to participate actively in the market and infrastructure to support the modernised trading platform. Unless reforms address all these three issues simultaneously, they are unlikely to succeed.

Keywords: eNAM; Karnataka Model; Mandi reforms; APMC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q02 Q13 Q14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2016-09
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