evidence: Price risks are associated with agricultural markets and lumpiness in arrival in mandis leads to fall in prices below MSP for some crops in some mandis for some period. In order to overcome this, Government is facilitating construction of godowns/ warehouses where the farmers can deposit their produce and obtain a warehouse depository receipt and wait for the opportunity for higher price. The Budget for 2018-19 has announced its intent to develop and upgrade existing 22,000 rural haats into Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs). Toward this end an Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of Rs.2000 crore has been proposed. These GrAMs, electronically linked to e-NAM and exempted from regulations of Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMCs), will provide farmers facility to make direct sale to consumers and bulk purchasers. [...] Government has taken several steps to provide remunerative prices to farmers for their produce which include procurement through designated procurement agencies including price support scheme (PSS) for pulses, oilseeds and cotton, implementing e-National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) and enacting a model Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion & Facilitation) Act, 2017.