Synopsis An efficient agricultural marketing system is now accepted as an important component of overall agricultural development in India. This book deals with micro level spatial enquiry of agricultural marketing in Araria, a backward but agriculturally predominant district of Bihar. This book takes into account the performance of agricultural marketing of Araria through systematic study of the spatial and temporal pattern of the marketed surplus and their price structure including price spread of different channels of agricultural marketing. Based on primary survey and extensive data of three tier marketing system, especially exploitation of small and marginal farmers through middlemen. This book envisages of a new integrated market development policy and suggests relevant measures. It is useful for academicians researchers and planner, providing conceptual understanding and data base substantiation of empirical situation.