About Us

Agricultural Market Intelligence Unit (AMIU) is established Assam State Agricultural University, Jorhat under Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (APART), a World Bank funded project of Government of Assam.

The project is divided into four components viz., A. Enable Agri-Enterprise Development, B. Facilitate Agro-cluster Development, C. Market-led production and resilience enhancement and D. Project Management. Monitoring and Learning.

AMIU is established under component “Market-led production and resilience enhancement” with an objective to improve the understanding of the supply and demand of the products of targeted value chains and to connect demand and supply.

The activities of AMIU include:

Vission >>

The vision is to establish the Agricultural Market Intelligence Unit as a professional business centre for collection of market information (prices, arrivals, trends, market signals etc.), analysis, interpretation & dissemination of market intelligence, market advisory etc. to the farmers and other value chain players.

Mission >>

The mission is to help farmers in better realization through increasing bargaining power by providing prevailing prices in the market and information on high price markets to producers. To increase information transparency, profitability and market access to the farming community in all districts of Assam.