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Case Study On ITC E-Choupal
Case Study On ITC E-Choupal
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Case study on ITC e-Choupal
1. What is the innovation of the e-Choupal?
e-Choupals provides the use of internet to connect different farmers with large
firms. It also provides information regarding the current agricultural research, and
the global market.
2. Discuss the paradox of Indian Agriculture?
Agriculture contributes 23% of Indias GDP, and it employs 66% of their
workforce.
3. Why is soya an important innovation in the Indian oilseed complex?
40% of the increased output was attributable to the introduction of new crops
(soya and sunflower). Soya therefore represents an important innovation in the
Indian oilseed complex that is resulting in better utilization of scarce resources
and greater cropping intensity.
4. Describe the marketing processes before the introduction of e-Choupal.
there are three commercial channels for the products: manis, traders, or
eventual resale to crushers, and producer-run cooperative societies for crushing
in cooperative mills. The farmers traditionally keep a small amount for their
personal consumption and get the produce processed in a small-scale job-shop
crushing-plant called ghanti.
5. Why is the mandi not an optimal procurement channel?
For every process in the mandi operations, there are always sources of
inefficiency.
6. What were the advantages of ITC's competitors? How did ITC address
them?
When ITC entered the industry, produce was brought and crushed by small
crushers who were also traders. ITC began with buying and exporting DOC in
product dynamics. ITC then began renting processing plant time and buying
soya from mandis. ITCs procurement has grown rapidly since, and its initiative
has seen the introduction of professional practices, transparency, and formal
contractual relationships between agents and buyers.