Summary:
The team also interacted with Ministry of Agriculture, Spain. The prime function of the NCDC is to plan, promote and develop cooperatives for augmenting income through activities such as development of agriculture marketing, processing, storage and supply of inputs and consumer goods. The NCDC has taken up several such projects across the States and it wanted the team to visit Spain and study how it could provide market access for the agriculture, livestock and fisheries products. The producers of vegetables, fruits, poultry, meat, fish would bring their produce to the wholesale markets and sell them. There is no auction and it is a free market with no intervention from the government, he explains..