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E-commerce in the agriculture industry

E-commerce  provide farmers an alternative source of promoting and marketing agricultural products. E-commerce is spread over a wide geographical area. It also gives additional profit to farmers. E-commerce is a online platform to sell the agricultural products directly to customer, business and Government. Using e-commerce platform the farmer gets high profit and the customers get the products with low price.

Usually , e-commerce is the process of doing business over the Internet.  E-commerce includes all the essential components of commerce.

The benefits of E-Commerce
-Transaction cost is very low
-Purchase is high
-Direct sales to hotels and other food industry
                        -Direct sales to big industries, hospitals and education institutes etc.,


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