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CHAPTER – VIIMARKETED SURPLUS7.1 The farm households resort to sale of Ragi over a period of time depending upon the needs. Thesmall category farmers, who are hard pressed to meet the financial obligations resort to, distresssales – immediately after harvest, whereas the farmers with better holding capacity dispose of theproduce, when the market is favourable. The total produce sold by the farm households is termed asthe marketed surplus, i.e., the surplus of produce, which is sold in the market irrespective of theactual requirement of the farm households. This is the quantity, which is made available forconsumption to the non-farming population including the buy-back by the farm households. Duringthe survey, the following aspects of the sales by the farm households were studied :i) Periodicity;ii) Agencies to whom sold;iii) Sale within the village; andiv) Sale outside the village.7.2 PERIODICITY OF SALESThe state-wise and quarter-wise, estimated sales of Ragi by the different categories of cultivators arefurnished in Annexures XXXIX, XXXX & XXXXI and for all categories of cultivators, takentogether, are furnished in Annexure – XXXXII. Extract of these Annexures is given in Table No. 27:TABLE NO. 27SALES OF RAGI(AVERAGE 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99).(‘000 tonnes)S. No. QuarterQuarter-wise sales of RagiCategorySmall Medium Large Total1. 1 st Quarter 0.00(0.00)0.00(0.00)0.02(0.01)0.02(0.003)2. 2 nd Quarter 57.64(30.95)65.65(29.11)103.78(42.97)227.07(34.76)3. 3 rd Quarter 121.89(65.44)142.65(63.24)117.04(48.46)381.58(58.41)4. 4 th Quarter 6.7317.26 20.67 44.66(3.61)Total 186.26(100.00)(7.65)225.56(100.00)(8.56)241.51(100.00)(6.83)653.33(100.00)It has been observed that 58.41 percent sales of Ragi were effected during 3 rd quarter followed by34.76 percent in 2 nd quarter.7.3 AGENCIES TO WHOM SOLDThe state-wise details of agencywise sales of Ragi by cultivators of small category, medium category,large category and total of all categories, taken together, are furnished in Annexures XXXXIII,XXXXIV, XXXXV and XXXXVI respectively. A summary of these Annexures is furnished in TableNo. 28.