Grade 8 Vegetable Market

Vegetable Market

Vegetable Market is a mechanism through which sellers and buyers are meet and interact to trade vegetables.

As we all know vegetables are integral part of food. Hence, market holds a major significance for farmers and sellers for earning livelihood as well as for consumer to get desired vegetables.

Identification of Vegetable Market

It is very crucial component for farmers to identify the suitable market for their vegetables. Any wrong decision can ruin all the hard work of farmers.

It is seen that small farmer sell their vegetable to  near market where large farmers prefer all kind of market.

 Some major consideration for identifying vegetable market are:

•Demands of Vegetable

•People’s choice

•  Area of market

•Distance between market and production area.

Importance of identifying vegetable market are:

• To get suitable marketing area.

• To know the demands of people.

• To maximize the selling rate.

• To fulfill the requirement of consumer.

•  To distribute equally.

Vegetable Distribution System in Nepal

It is mainly depends upon 2 factors:

•Amount of vegetables produces:

If the amount of vegetable production are high, farmers have to sell them in all kind of market and have to take help of intermediaries.

However, if it is in small amount of production, they can sell them to any nearest market.

•Distance between market and production area:

If the market is near, farmers sell vegetable directly to the consumer where they can get great profit.

However ,if the market is far, farmers take help of intermediaries.

Intermediaries are the link between producer and consumer. Higher the intermediaries , lesser the value, get by farmers.