Procurement and trade operations
BS Food Operations
operations manager
Mandi Sathi Insights
Market analysis, export guides, price-trend breakdowns, and contract-farming deep dives — written for FMCG and procurement teams sourcing agricultural commodities from India.
A data-driven look at onion arrivals and modal rates across Lasalgaon, Nashik, and Pune mandis through the 2024-25 marketing season — what procurement teams should read in the numbers.
Read analysis →PepsiCo India's contract-farming model for chipping potatoes is the most studied private procurement system in Indian agriculture. A procurement-lens breakdown of how the FC5, Chipetta, and FL varieties flow from Punjab and WB fields to the Lay's line.
Basmati is India's signature agri-export and a regulated one. A practical end-to-end on APEDA registration, DNA-based GI protection, the RCPC system, and the documentation path from Haryana mandi to Jebel Ali.
AGMARKNET reports prices; eNAM trades them. The two government platforms are often confused but do fundamentally different jobs. Here is how a procurement team should use each.
Which agri-commodity trades fall under GST e-invoice, how IRN generation works for agricultural B2B transactions, and where the unprocessed-produce exemption ends and the compliance net begins.
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