Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) is a marketing board

established by a state government in India.

The biggest wholesale market of city, located in Navi Mumbai (Vashi) famous
for all kind of fruits, vegetable and spices etc. This is the first place where all
the products are unloaded daily imported to city from other locations, and so
is the cheapest market for any fruits and vegetables if purchased in bulk
wholesale quantity (Retail Not Allowed Here). Generally the big suppliers and
retailers purchase products from here daily in early morning time, which is
available for sale in local markets and hawkers by morning 6:00 Am to 7:00
Am and reaches you at the retail price.
The agricultural produce market covers all of 170 acres. There are a
staggering 3700 go downs, 1500 commercial blocks, 4 large auction halls, 2
giant warehouses, and 5 large wholesale market yards. Apart from this, there
are big processing centers - a vapour heat treatment plant, ripening
facilities, cold storage facilities, an export facilitation centre and so on.
It is a  vast new exciting trading town, where trucks trundled in with every
conceivable type of agricultural produce from the country. There are
hundreds of farmers, in their white Gandhi-topis. There were many women
too, in their traditional Maharashtrian sarees. There were literally thousands
of workers, transporting bags of produce. The website of the market
committee, this is Asia's largest regulated market for agricultural produce.
There are five different markets.
 Spice/Masala Market.
 Food grains Market
 "kanda-batata market" - The Onion and Potato Market,
 Fruit Market and
 Vegetable Market.

Over 12000 tons of agri-commodities arrive daily into this market. The
product is sold by auction and the prices are noted and managed by the
Mumbai Agricultural Produce Market Committee. It is the committee's
responsibility to ensure that sales do not take place below the minimum
price fixed by the government. They are also responsible for ensuring fair
measurement and weighing, and fair charges for labor.

Insights of spices Market

Types of Food Spices Sold

Chillies (Mirchi) : 4 Major types of Chillies available in APMC markets are
PANDI, MADRAS, BEDGI and the famous KASHMIRI Mirch . Among all PANDI is
the cheapest shiny looking pale red coloured chilly and Kashmiri mirch being
the costliest.
Cloves (Laung / Lavang) : Major 3 types of Cloves available (Zanzibar,
Ceylon and Indian), among which Indian Cloves are costliest and Zanzibar
being the smallest in size is the cheapest.

Black Pepper (Kali Miri) : Pure version of Black pepper and the
combination with Kabab Chini are ready available at this markets as per
need.
Turmeric (Haldi) : 3 major types of turmeric one can see in this markets
are NIZAM, RAJAPUR and SALEM, Nizam haldi turmeric being the costliest as
said to be of superior quality compared to RAJAPUR and SALEM spice.
Apart from the above listed masala’s which are used in day to day life, their
are many more varieties and types which can be seen and purchased at best
lower prices from this markets. You might also like to know about Cheap
Vegetable Markets and Price Per KG of all such vegetables.