Rajasthan State Agricultural Marketing Board 

The role of Agriculture Marketing is crucial in post harvest technology of agriculture production. In the absence of remunerative prices of the producers, agriculture production gets a setback. In view of this, the State Government acknowledged the importance of regulated markets so as to ensure fair return to the farmers. With this purpose in mind the Government promulgated Rajasthan Agriculture Produce Market Act in the year 1961 which came into force in the year 1964.

To start with there were only nine market committees in the State. The number of such committees has gone up to 124 by now. There are 278 sub yards under the principal market yards at present. A wide network of market regulation has been provided all over the state. Efforts are being made to ensure further strengthening of the network so as to provide market facilities to the farmers at short distances preferably within a radius of 15-20 Km.

They are also responsible for the general development of market yards by way of providing necessary amenities and facilities. They are also empowered to issue licenses to the traders. For providing all these services, they collect market fee from the buyers at Rs. 1.60 on every hundred rupees worth of produce sold. The market fee is collected at a single point in the State.

Out of the 124 regulated markets, 9 markets viz. Jaipur (Grain) and Jodhpur (Grain), Jaipur (F&V), Alwar, Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh, Bikaner, Kota & Sumerpur are under super "A" Class category and 17 markets are under "A" class category, 39 markets are in "B" class 33 are in "C" Class and the remaining have been classified as "D" class markets according to their income from market fee as under:

The main purpose for the accomplishment of which the Board has been set up are summarised as follows

1 Construction of market yards and sub yards for transfer to market committees.
2 Construction of market roads and approach to markets.
3 Giving aid to financially weaker market committees in the form of loans and grants.
4 Undertaking education and publicity in relation to matters of marketing of agricultural produce in the state.
5 Grading and standardization of agricultural produce.
6 Training of Officers and staff of market committees and to organize camps, workshop, seminars and conferences.
7 To provide technical and administrative assistance to market committees; and
8 To help the farmers in accidental cases.

Any other purpose connected with agricultural marketing with prior approval of the State Govt.

The Agro sector is relatively a new sector and development of this sector is comparatively a recent phenomenon. This sector forms a substantial part of industries in state as about 10,000 units are working in small scale and tiny sector and 74 and have come up in medium and lodge scale sector.

The agro and food processing sector offers scope for development of several industries such as solvent expiation, oleo- resins- serene, orange juice, malt extracts, floriculture and a host of other items. Besides these items like mushrooms, tomato processing, other processing industries based on mango, pomegranate and other vegetable like onion, potato, garlic etc. Industries based on herbal and medicinal plants. Sheep, goat, buffalo meat processing, poultry and poultry products and non edible oil processing industries have bright export prospects, the state government on its parts, is alive to the needs of this sector with regard to training, technology up gradation, improvement in infrastructure facility and a progressing Government. Policy with these measures, along with support from central government and the coordinated efforts of various institutions working in the filed of agro and food products, it is expected that this industries with come to occupy its due place in the agro industrial development of Rajasthan

Rajasthan is an agriculture economy based State, 72% of State population is some or other way engaged in production, processing and distribution of food. Agriculture and animal husbandry produces basic food and unprocessed materials for various people of the state that every grain of food is preserved processed and made into human consumable loss and wastage of food material and providing large scale employment to the Indian People thus, rests with proper processing and preserving food materials.