- Promote and regulate production of crops
- Carry out research
- Provide bulk planting materials
- Marketing i.e selling crops for farmers
- Represents government in international issues
- Provide licences for crops and processing factories
- Provide inputs
- Regulate prices of farm produce
- Quality control e.g inspect and maintain quality
- Provide storage facilities
- Risk bearing by sharing overhead costs
- Provide market information
- Provide credit to farmers
- Process farm produce
- Grade and standardize farm produce
- Storage of farm produce
- Packaging function
- Invest profits for benefit of farmers
- Advertisement i.e sales promotion
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