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International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2018, Volume : 6, Issue : 4
First page : (363) Last page : (369 )
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-6670

Awareness of e-Tendering and e-Trading among the Farmers and Market Functionaries in the Agricultural Produce Market Committees
(APMCs) of Karnataka

Neelamma R. Kolageri¹* and Basavaraj Banakar²

¹Ph.D. Scholar, ²Professor, Department of Agribusiness Management, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka -05
*Corresponding Author E-mail: neelrk6@gmail.com
Received: 27.06.2018 | Revised: 25.07.2018 | Accepted: 4.08.2018  

 

 ABSTRACT

The world has witnessed the digitalisation in all the sectors. In recent years in agriculture the digitalisation has introduced in the form precision farming, forecasting prices, demand and supply of the agriculture commodities. Indian agriculture market characterized with many loopholes. In many of the regulated market reform has brought through introduction information technology in the form electronic tendering and electronic trading and electronic payment system to overcome these loopholes. The present study has been conducted in various APMCs of Karnataka to study the awareness of e-trading and e-tendering among the farmers and market functionaries. The market functionaries mainly considered were traders, commission agents and market officials. The result obtained observed that the awareness among the market officials was higher and medium among farmers and other market functionaries. To enhance the medium level of awareness among the functionaries they have to be encouraged to participate actively in operations by providing necessary facilities an assistance in the difficult faces of the system operation.

Key words: Awareness, Digitalisation, e-Trading, e-Tendering, Market,

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Cite this article: Kolageri, N.R. and Banakar, B., Awareness of e-Tendering and e-Trading among the Farmers and Market Functionaries in the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) of Karnataka, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.6(4): 363-369 (2018). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.6670