Pakka Khata articles and practical guides about Adhati.
4 published articles
An adhati plays an important role in Pakistan’s agricultural markets by connecting farmers, buyers, and traders. Learn what an adhati does, how commission is earned, and how adhatis manage sales, payments, accounts, and daily mandi operations.
Adhatis move from paper bahi to a digital khata because a phone ledger ends lost pages, auto-tracks udhaar aging, backs up to the cloud, and shares the parchi on WhatsApp — without changing how the mandi works.
A kacha arhti only facilitates the sale and earns commission; a pakka arhti also buys on their own account and resells. The difference changes who pays, who carries risk, and how the parchi settles.
Adhat is the commission an adhati earns on a mandi sale — typically 1.5–2.5% of the gross lot value, applied before deductions. Here is the exact formula with a worked PKR example.