Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Marketing

• Though chilli is grown mostly in Kharif, harvesting of red ripe chilli commences in October-November in Karnataka to Feb-March in TamilNadu & Andhra Pradesh. The modes of transport to marketing centers are head loads, carts and trucks. These are important assembling and distributing to terminal markets of chilli in India. Some of the important assembling centers are Byadagi and Hubli in Karnataka. Güntoor and Warangal in AP, Madurai and Virudhanagar and Tamil Nadu.
• The distributing and terminal markets are Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Guntur, Calicut, Patna, Kanpur, Nagpur, Delhi, Sholapur, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Warangal & Solan. The present system of chilli marketing is through regulated market committee. The agricultural produce market committees are operating market yards in all the major markets in AndraPradesh & Karnataka. Commission agents organize closed auctions in Tamilnadu and elsewhere in the country.