Agriculture Market

Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only.


Agriculture market provides an important revenue earning sources. It was discovered that as many as 19,000 farmers sold their farming products in different markets worldwide.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has set forward many strategies for better marketing of various agricultural products.

The USDA or United States Department of Agriculture, has established the Farmers market Consortium, as a means to acquaint the farmers with better techniques for exploiting better marketing scopes.

The USDA or United States Department of Agriculture, also assists the farmers in providing information about fund resources.

Other agencies or organization directed towards the betterment of the agriculture industry and also chalking out strategic marketing plans include:

  • U.S. Department of Health & HumanServices
  • Ford Foundation
  • Kellogg Foundation
  • Project for Public Spaces

Direct agriculture market having farming products and their marketing serves as an important outlet for the various agricultural products throughout the nation.

Agriculture market farming products is on the rise and gaining popularity. The rise in popularity can be attributed to the fact that more and more people are opting for fresh food products.

Agriculture market is influenced by several factors which may include the following:

Farmers owning small farms:
Farmers whose yearly receipt is below $250,000, farm and carry out their own agricultural operations fall in this category.

Survey has proved that approximately 4,385 agriculture market functioning in the United States of America which implies an increase by around 18% as compared to 3,076 agriculture market in the year 2004.

The Farmers Market Promotion Program or the FMPP was set up as a mean of a latest amendment of Farmer to Consumer Direct Marketing Act,1976.

$1million in approximation is assigned for the year of 2007.

The FMPP program are aimed at improving and for the expansion of farmers from the domestic market, agricultural programs supported by communities.

There are several agriculture market projects dealing with research.

The Agriculture market projects dealing with research aims at improving the agriculture market worldwide and also aims at the improvement and betterment of the agriculture market.

About EconomyWatch PRO INVESTOR

The core Content Team our economy, industry, investing and personal finance reference articles.