Establishment of an Agriculture Market Information System (AMIS) and
dissemination of market information to provide useful and effective price and
market information to the stakeholders, particularly to the farmers and
commercial stakeholders, are the major objectives of Component 3;market
information dissemination activity of the CADP. To achieve those objectives, the
Project has been supporting at different levels for market information
collection and dissemination through FM radio, daily and monthly bulletins and
AMIS website of four major markets of Nepal – Birtamod, Dharan, Biratnagar and
Kalimati.
Project has also compiled daily price information and records of
monthly historical price information which are being used by the policy
maker, researcher and in-house specialists for different purposes. Similarly,
different capacity development trainings have been conducted relating to AMIS
for Project beneficiaries - farmers, traders and processors and also Project
stakeholders - District Agriculture Development Office (DADO), partner NGOs and
CAA. Besides, the Project has also established AMIS desk at Eastern Regional
Agriculture Development Office at Biratnagar to institutionalize the AMIS and
networking with DADOs. Besides, the Project’s AMIS has established network with
CAA branch, CAA member, semi commercial and subsistence stakeholders groups for
collection and dissemination of information regularly.
Similarly, Project has established group cooperative based market information system(GMIS) at the
group and cooperative level and network them with the central information system and other
market information service providers.