Ecommerce in Agriculture

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More than half of the Indian population depends on Agriculture for their
bread and butter, that's why we can say that Agriculture is a backbone of
an Indian economy. Contribution of Agriculture in Indian economy is
approx 22% which is the highest contribution. Being the biggest
contributor in the Indian economy Indian farmers are not in a good
state, farming is facing ups & down due to unpredictable weather, water
scarcity & less availability of the good quality of seeds. As per FICCI
report, there is an ample opportunity to use modern technology in
agriculture to solve many problems.

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When we talk about modern technology than no one can ignore
Ecommerce, eCommerce is changing the way of business, however,
eCommerce is still not touched every sector in India. Still, many Agri-
Commerce startups using best ecommerce platform are trying to
innovate & trying to implement eCommerce in agriculture, the main
goal of the startups is to deliver the maximum benefits of the
eCommerce, which will leads to saving resources.

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What is E-Agriculture
In a very layman language, we can say that the combination of agri-
business & eCommerce is E-Agribusiness. This is a new concept the
in the market wherein every transaction for agriculture will take
place with the help of the internet, Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers' Welfare, Government of Indian is implementing many
schemes to promote the E-Agribusiness, the main purpose of e-
agribusiness is make every transaction transparent & beneficial for
the farmers & for all who are into the agriculture sector. E-
Agriculture has many beneficial features such as

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1) Trading can be done without any barrier of the volume

2) Grades & standards cab be maintained of the products

3) Increased reach of buyers & sellers

4) Trading can be done in a very organized manner

The above mentioned can be path-breaking features of E-Agribusiness.

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When we are talking about E-Agribusiness than we can't ignore
the scope of it

1) Indian Agri products can be sold in other countries

2) for high profit processed Agri products can be sold online

3) farmers get an update related to Agri market

4) portal like MSAMB gives the details of the price of the farm
goods

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