The Government has been playing an important role in developing the Agricultural Marketing System in the country. Department of Agriculture and Cooperation has two organizations dealing with marketing under its administrative control, namely, the Directorate of Marketing & Inspection (DMI) and the National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM), Jaipur. Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) The Directorate has its Head Office at Faridabad (Haryana), Branch Head Office at Nagpur (Maharashtra) and 11 Regional Offices/ Sub-Offices headed by Dy. Agricultural Marketing Advisers (Dy.AMAs.) at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Guntur, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bhopal, Kochi and Guwahati and the Central Agmark Laboratory at Nagpur. Besides, there are 34 Sub-Offices and 23 Regional Agmark Laboratories (RALs) spread all over the country as per the details given below:- Regional Office Sub-Office Regional Agmark Laboratories 1. Delhi 1. Karnal 1. Okhla, 2.Ghaziabad 2. Kolkata 1. Patna 2.Bhubneshwar 1.Kolkata 2.Patna 3.Bhubaneshwar 3. Mumbai 1.Nasik 2.Ahmedabad 3.Rajkot 4.Jamnagar 5.Surat 6.Panaji 7.Pune 8.Sangli 9.Margaon 10.Unjha 1.Mumbai 2.Rajkot 3.Jamnagar 4. Bhopal 1.Khandwa 1.Bhopal 5. Chennai 1.Bangalore 2.Mangalore 3.Tuticorin 4.Raichur 5.Virudhunagar 6.Tirupur 7.Bodinayaknur 8.Nagapattanam 1.Chennai 2.Bangalore 3.Mangalore 4.Tuticorin 5.Virudhunagar 6. Cochin 1.Alleppey 2.Calicut 3.Trivandrum 1.Kochi 2.Alleppey 3.Calicut 7. Guntur 1.Hyderabad 2.Vishakhapattanam 1.Guntur 8. Guwahati 1. Shillong 1.Guwahati 2.Shillong 9. Lucknow 1.Kanpur 2.Varanasi 1.Kanpur 10. Jaipur Nil 1.Jaipur 11. Chandigarh 1.Jammu 2.Amritsar 3.Abohar 4.Shimla 1.Amritsar State Agricultural Marketing Boards / Directorates Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Marketing Andhra Pradesh- AGMARKNET Commissionerate of Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, Tamil Nadu Gujarat State Agricultural Marketing Board Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board Himachal Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board Jharkhand State Agricultural Marketing Board Krishi Maratavahini (Karnataka State Daily Market Price Information) Madhya Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board Meghayala State Agricultural Marketing Board Odisha State Agricultural Marketing Board Punjab State Marketing Board Rajasthan State Marketing Board Uttar Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board West Bengal State Agricultural Marketing Board National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) NIAM has been imparting training to senior and middle level executives of agricultural and horticultural Departments, Agro Industries, Corporations, commodity and apex level cooperatives, commodity Boards, export houses recognised by Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), Commercial banks and non-governmental organisations. Besides these clients, the NIAM also imparts training to farmers on marketing management. NIAM is managed by a Governing Body under the Chairmanship of Minister for Agriculture and an Executive Committee under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. Visit NIAM website for more details