Introduction: Agriculture Produce Market committee Mundera is located in Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh state. It has an area of around 55 acres, which consist of offices, storage and selling places, common facilities. It is the main fruit and vegetables market in Prayagraj, 80% of city’s requirement is fulfilled by this market only. Offices Tap water, Toilets Bio-compost Plant Garden Water body CRPF Offices and Facilities available on the site Joint Agriculture Director and Deputy Agriculture Director office Deputy Director (Marketing & Administration) office Deputy Director (Construction) office Cold storage area Covered auction area Toilets and drinking water facility Bio-composition plant I selected this site for study; the reason is its scale. The amount of good this market provides and also an opportunity to local people to practice the agri-business. One can earn good profit here because of availability to open market which balance the demand and supply equation. Mundera Mandi is one of the largest vegetable markets in the state and attracts traders and customers from different parts of the region. The market is particularly busy in the morning when the fresh produce arrives. The APMC is well equipped with proper space and facilities for storage of vegetables and fruits. The material procurement happens between dealer to dealer and farmers to dealers. These auctions happen through a token system generated by e-mandi, a centralized digital platform by the government. Gate no. 02 Weighting bridge Flowchart of Mandi: Farmers and the Dealers are the initial pillars of this process; they participate and avail the goods for the auction. Others dealers and markets buy these good according to the requirement and sell to the local markets. e-mandi Other Dealers Farmers Collection Centre/ APMC Wholesale Public Local Dealers Dealers Key components of the project: These are the main set of activities: Institution Building Institutional buildings on the site are for administration, management and development of the site. These buildings include offices of Joint Agriculture Director and Deputy Agriculture Director Office, Deputy Director (Marketing & Administration) office and Deputy Director (Construction) office, APMC office at the entrance gate 02. Training and Education APMC office manages the e-auction and providing gate pass to farmers and dealers to sell their good in the mandi. Deputy Director (Marketing & Administration) office focuses on the training and education of farmers about digital systems. Training and office Director’s office Digitalization Government Initiative of e-mandi and APMC helped farmers to expand their reach for selling goods and make good income. It also provided a transparent platform to the parties involve in process. Fruit and vegetable sample testing, analysis APMC office takes the samples on regular intervals for testing quality of goods coming for auction in mandi. This testing and analysis help in deciding the rates for auction. Fruit and vegetable security The controlled temperature shades are available on the site and it helps to store fruits and vegetables for a longer period of time. Auction Platform Cold storage Waste Management Plant There is a bio composting facility established by private entity (BioFics) in partnership with Municipal Corporation. The daily production limit of facility is 3 tons, which is very less with respect to the scale of the APMC site. Bio composting plant Services on APMC Layout of APMC is of grid pattern. There is 10-15m wide road with drainage channel both sides with proper slope. The free public toilets and drinking water facility is dilapidated and requires repair and maintenance. The paid public toilet facility is well managed. There are animals gathering on waste spread on roads during loading and unloading. Public Toilet Waste, animals Conclusion: The existing infrastructure available on site is adequate and has a good impact on farmers for selling their goods in the open market. It provided everyone a transparent process to participate. There are some facilities like waste management is not proper, on my visit at site I saw a lot of rotten onions, potatoes and others fruits dumped on the road corners, animals eating and scattering it to everywhere on the road. There was also election related work was going on and because of that’s roads were clean on the main routes only as officials of blocks came for meeting and related works. The auction mostly happens during early morning and late evenings for the farmers and for the dealers it goes on throughout the day. The bio-composting facility collects waste from mandi and produces 3 tons of compost daily and sells it to open market. The office of APMC takes the random samples for quality monitoring and they also have facility to educate farmers and dealers for the incorporated technologies for better opportunities.
