Value chain processes for organic products:

• The value chains for different agriculture products in different states are in practice, truncated value chains
• About 20-30% of the produce gets wasted at field level
• Entire produce is not sold at market level
• Farmers sell directly to consumers in the local village markets, due to low volume of produce
• Marketing & post harvest infrastructure is yet to be scaled-up to improve the overall value chain
• Existing markets are not very supportive to the farmers due to traditional system of procurement, and as a result of lack of bargaining power of the farmers due to poor economic condition
• Markets are found to be lacking in basic facilities
• Last but not the least, in most of the states either there is no regulated market or most of the trade is being practiced in non-regulated /traditional markets.