Abstract

With the increasing population, the demand for foods, vegetables, fishes, meat etc is growing day by day. To meet these demands there are several vegetable, fish and meat markets in cities and town. Panskura Station Market is one of the important remarkable markets not only in Purba Medinipur district but also in West Bengal. This vegetable market remains open every day twenty four hours. But the major import export to and from other parts occurs during 10pm to 10am. This is the peak time of the market during which about 500 truck full vegetables are imported and exported to the medium and small merchant of the nearby locality and towns. The vegetables are imported mostly from the nearby local agricultural field of Haur, Radhamohanpur, Shyamsundarpur Patna, Moyna, Bijaynagar and rural parts of Panskura Block. Fishes are imported from the local region, Moyna and also from Bilaspur and are exported to medium and small merchant of the surrounding region.