What are the particularities of agricultural products market?

Compared with other markets, agricultural products market has some inherent particularities.

(1) The products traded in the agricultural products market have the dual nature of means of production and means of subsistence. On the one hand, agricultural and sideline products in the agricultural product market can be used as means of production to supply production units, such as seeds, breeding animals and feed for agricultural production; On the other hand, agricultural products are indispensable in people's daily life.

(2) The supply of agricultural products market is seasonal and cyclical. The cyclical characteristics of agricultural production divide agricultural production into off-season and peak season, and there are also high-yield, flat-yield and low-yield in several years. Therefore, it is very important to solve the contradiction between seasonality and periodicity of agricultural products supply and maintain supply balance.

(3) The market risk of agricultural products is relatively high. Agricultural products are living products, which will rot, mildew, pests and diseases in the process of transportation, storage and sales, and easily cause losses.

(4) Most agricultural products markets are small and scattered. The production of agricultural products is scattered in thousands of households, and the centralized transaction of agricultural products has regional characteristics, usually in the form of market transactions, and is scattered in small amounts.

(5) The agricultural product market is basically stable. The balance and basic stability of supply and demand of agricultural products are the requirements of social stability and economic development.

These characteristics of agricultural products market make agricultural products marketing have its own laws. In marketing activities, farmers should consciously guide their production and business activities according to objective laws in order to achieve the expected business results.