Practical guides for accounting, mandi operations, inventory, payments and better business decisions in Pakistan.
29 published articles
Cold-storage rent in Pakistan is charged per bag, per month: rent = per-bag monthly rate × bags × months, usually with a 25–50% advance upfront and the balance collected when bags are outward.
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 Pakistani mandi parchi subtracts several charges before the farmer is paid: bardana, nami, mitti, tulai, kaat, adhat and the market-committee fee. Here is exactly what each one means and how it is computed.
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.