Mini-project
Agriculture & Food
Mandi price forecast
Forecast weekly prices of onion, tomato or another crop so farmers can decide when to sell.
The brief
Onion and tomato prices swing wildly, and farmers often sell at the bottom. Forecast weekly mandi prices with seasonal patterns and arrivals, compare methods, and show how much a farmer could gain by timing the sale. Good looks like: forecasts that beat last year's pattern, honest back-testing, and a simple sell-or-wait signal.
What you will build
- Build weekly price and arrival series
- Explore seasonal patterns
- Compare seasonal-naive, ARIMA and gradient-boosted forecasts
- Back-test over past seasons
- Turn forecasts into a sell-or-wait signal
Free, open data to build it with
- Agmarknet ↗ Directorate of Marketing and Inspection
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