Abstract
An attempt has been made to study the behavioural pattern of prices and market arrivals for rice by generating a monthly seasonal index of market arrivals and prices for the crop in five selected markets, namely Bardhaman, Siliguri, Contai, Chakdah, and Bishnupur of West Bengal from 2013–14 to 2018–19. It establishes that the month of February has the greatest average monthly arrival, followed by the months of March and May. It has a declining pattern up until October, after which it climbs upward and reaches its peak in February. In case of prices, long term movement over time has a significant increasing trend pattern expect Contai and Siliguri markets. The variability associated with arrival is very high may be due to the uncertain prices and seasonal nature of agricultural production system. But variability related with prices are comparatively less. All five markets have relatively little intra-year price variance. The relationship between market arrival and current price is positive for all markets except Siliguri and Bishnupur where one year lagged price is positively correlated with arrival only for Contai and Bishnupur markets.
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