Anand Agricultural University has bagged an ICAR-World Bank funded project to establish Centre for Agricultural Market Intelligence at its campus. Total fund sanctioned under the project is Rs. 16.89 crore. The project duration is three years and it has multidisciplinary team covering crops, dairy, food processing, poultry and fisheries. The Project has been sanctioned under National Agricultural Higher Education Project of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research. The project has a total strength of 31 staff members of which 21 have been currently working.

Experts from country's premium institutes including IIM-Ahmedabad, Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Junagadh Agricultural University, The National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India (NCDFI) apart from three foreign universities including Australia's Western Sydney University and The Papua New Guinea University of Technology and US Texas Tech University are involved in the project.

The major objectives of this project includes price forecasting and behaviors, export competitiveness, evaluation of e-National Agriculture Market (eNAM), market institutions and capacity building of faculty, students, farmers and other stake holders.

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