India is basically an agri-based country and agro based sector is the most critical sector in term of contributing to economic growth and development. In recent years this sector is facing lot of setbacks i.e, non availability of water to cultivation, non availability of labour force to work in the fields , storage facilities etc . Farmers do not have proper storage facility to store their produce and they need to depend on Government or private warehouses for their storage. Most of them are small and medium farmers and they can’t afford for storing their produce and sell the produce when they get good price for their produces. The warehousing capacity available in India, in public, cooperative and private sector is about 108.75 million MTs. For internal and external trade, additional 35 million MTs warehousing capacity is required during the 12 Five Year Plan period for the storage of all major crops. Due to increase in procurement, storage facility becomes major problem. In this background, the present study is to find out the problems faced by the farmers in agri- storage facilities in rural Bangalore. This study also gives various recommendations to solve the above said problem.

KEYWORDS: Agricultural storage, Warehousing, mother economy, Agricultural production