Data-Driven Supply Regulation to Improve Farmers’ Income in Agricultural Markets

Millions of smallholder farmers live in persistent poverty. To improve farmers’ livelihood and connect physically distant markets, the Karnataka state government in India launched the Unified Market Platform (UMP) in 2014. The UMP is an online agri-platform used to facilitate commodity auction marke...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCombs, Morgan Jane
Other Authors: Zheng, Y. Karen
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139612