Describe any four suggestions to improve agriculture marketing.

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1. Creating orderly and transparent marketing conditions for regulation of markets.

2. Providing physical infrastructural facilities like roads, railways, godowns, cold-storage, warehouses etc.

3. Co-operative marketing to help in realising fair price for the farmer's product. (The success mantra of the milk co-operatives at Anand in Gujarat stands a testimony to the important role of co-operatives in an economy but in the recent past, the co-operatives have received a setback.)

4. Policy instruments like:
   a. assurance of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for agricultural products.
   b. Maintenance of Buffer Stocks of wheat and rice by FCI.
   c. Distribution of the essential food grains and sugar through the system of Public Distribution i.e. P.D.S.