Possibility of Cartel between Small Capital and Large Capital Trader Under Changing Retail and Wholesale Trade in India

In this paper, we have tried to show that how a strategic move from large capital or corporate traders of agriculture commodities, including food processing firms, retailers, wholesalers affecting and changing the preferences of the small capital regional or local traders of agriculture commodities in the market than before when only small capital traders were present and large capital or corporate traders were not allowed to enter. With these changing preferences of the small capital traders (SCT) and strategic moves or the preferences of the large capital or corporate traders (LCT) here we have tried to show in this paper the possible conditions of a cartel between the SCT and the LCT in the rural wholesale market of agricultural commodities and how that, in turn, changing the rural wholesale market price of agriculture-food items