Department of Agriculture Marketing & Agri Business, Tamil Nadu

Agricultural Marketing &Agri Business is to ensure fair price to the farming community by implementing new technologies aimed at reducing pre and post harvest losses through appropriate methods and encourage value addition. Agricultural Marketing infrastructure plays an important role in rural economic development. Agri Business is a process, which starts with a decision to produce a saleable farm commodity and it involves all the aspects relating to pre and post-harvest operations including grading, value addition, packaging, processing and transportation.

The Department of Agricultural Marketing, Tamil Nadu, has been functioning successfully since 1977, with prime objective of Regulating the Marketing of Agricultural produce thereby enriching the lives of the farmers through remunerative price realisations as well as supplying people with quality produce for a healthier life. It has meticulously transfigured since 2001 as Department of Agricultural Marketing and Agri. Business focussing on other activities like Agri Export, Post-Harvest Management, Food Processing, and Agricultural Marketing developmental activities in the wake of the liberalization of the economic policy of the country.