Subject(s): Farm produce in India. -- Farm produce in Marketing in Government policy in India. -- Agriculture marketing system -- Regulatory measures : Agricultural produce markets, income and expenditure pattern of agricultural produce- market committees and state agricultural marketing boarders, legal instruments of market regulation, regulation of forward trading, role and functions of directorate of marketing and inspection -- Marketing infrastructure : Importance for farmers, overall status, post harvest handling and packaging, grading facilities at producers and market level, transportation, storage, cold storage and refrigerated containers/vans, telecommunication, market yards and sub yards -- Institutional marketing infrastructure, Panchayati Raj institutions (PRI), self help groups (SHG) -- Government policies and programmes relating to agricultural prices : instruments for price policy, administrated prices, direct investment by public agencies, credit policy in relation to agricultural marketing -- Efficiency of the marketing system for agricultural commodities : Farmer's share gross marketing margins (GMM), net marketing margins (NMM), price series correlations, market integration and pricing efficiency, movement of price at farm- wholesale and retail level, co-integration of agricultural markets, market efficiency -- Research, training and statistics in agricultural marketing : data base including dissemination, national institute of agricultural marketing (NIAM) -- Lessons for long term policy of agricultural marketing development