As part of ensuring better incomes for the farmers, Kudumbashree facilitates weekly markets, through which agriculture products are sold directly to the consumers. This year more than more than 2000 markets were conducted which led total sales of more than 3700 Tons of vegetables, culminating in record sales in tune of Rs 14.06 cr.
District | No of Blocks | No of Markets Conducted | average number of markets in each blocks | Pre onam (08.08-29.08)Agri sales sales in Lakhs | Onam(30.08-02.10) agri sales in lakhs | Total sales 2017 (lakhs) | Total sales 2016 |
Ernakulam | 14 | 295 | 21 | 76.5 | 263.7 | 340.3 | 310.2 |
Thrissur | 16 | 236 | 15 | 56.3 | 91.2 | 147.5 | 212.0 |
Kottayam | 11 | 215 | 20 | 30.9 | 116.4 | 147.3 | 94.0 |
Alappuzha | 12 | 219 | 18 | 35.6 | 102.6 | 138.2 | 139.2 |
Thiruvananthapuram | 11 | 177 | 16 | 28.2 | 62.0 | 90.2 | 118.0 |
Pathanamthitta | 8 | 146 | 18 | 21.4 | 57.8 | 79.2 | 34.6 |
Idukki | 8 | 88 | 11 | 3.5 | 64.1 | 67.6 | 39.5 |
Kollam | 11 | 157 | 14 | 8.0 | 54.9 | 62.9 | 44.4 |
Wayanad | 4 | 80 | 20 | 4.4 | 57.3 | 61.7 | 31.3 |
Kannur | 11 | 12 | 1 | 18.4 | 43.0 | 61.4 | 25.4 |
Palakkad | 13 | 133 | 10 | 6.2 | 55.1 | 61.3 | 43.9 |
Kasaragod | 6 | 132 | 22 | 9.5 | 43.6 | 53.1 | 15.1 |
Kozhikode | 12 | 119 | 10 | 5.3 | 43.5 | 48.8 | 40.1 |
Malappuram | 15 | 52 | 3 | 1.0 | 45.5 | 46.5 | 78.7 |
Total | 152 | 2061 | 14 | 305.2 | 1100.8 | 1406.0 | 1226.3 |