National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is a government-supported virtual platform aimed at integrating physical wholesale mandis and markets of different States and Union Territories (UTs) all over the country.
e-NAM facilitates online trading of agricultural commodities through transparent price discovery methods to enable farmers to realize better remunerative prices for their produce.
Free e-NAM software
The Central Government is providing free e-NAM software and financial grant assistance for related hardware including quality assaying equipment and for the creation of infrastructure like cleaning, grading, sorting, packaging and compost unit, etc.
Several States and UTs have availed the assistance by submission of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) and created the related infrastructure for smooth functioning of e-NAM at respective mandis. States like Rajasthan, Gujarat & Haryana had installed quick assaying equipments in their e-NAM mandis.
State Governments have been advised to explore the possibilities of upgrading the internet connectivity with internet service providers.
States have also been advised to provide sufficient computers and other hardware with requisite manpower. Close monitoring of the progress through meetings at various levels and visits of the officers to e-NAM mandis is carried out.
Can farmers sell their products through e-NAM?
Farmers are free to register on the e-NAM Portal and sell their products through an online transparent and competitive bidding method, which is encouraging them to join increasingly on the e-NAM platform. Also, APMCs help farmers in registering as sellers in e-NAM.
So far, more than 1.72 Crore farmers have registered on the e-NAM platform, within the catchment area of 1000 mandis which are integrated on the e-NAM platform.
The agricultural produce trade with a value of Rs 1.82 lakh crore has so far been recorded on the e-NAM platform.
What are the efforts taken by the Union Government to promote e-NAM?
Following are some of the major efforts taken by the Government to continuously promote the e-NAM platform:-
Integration of Additional 415 Mandis with e-NAM
Integration of additional 415 mandis with e-NAM, taking the total number of mandis to 1000 across 18 states and 3 UTs, thus bringing more markets access to farmers to sell their agriculture produce.
FPO Trading Module
The government has launched Farmers Producer Organisation (FPO) trading module under which FPOs can trade their produce from their collection center or premise without bringing the produce to APMC.
Warehouse-based Trading Module
The warehouse-based trading module is provided in e-NAM to facilitate trade from warehouses based on e-NAM.
Integration with the Rashtriya e-Market Services Private Limited (ReMS)
The e-NAM platform is made interoperable with the Rashtriya e Market Services Private Limited (ReMS) platform of the Government of Karnataka which will facilitate farmers of either platform where can sell their produce on another platform thereby increasing their market access.
GPS Based e-NAM Mandi Locator
Farmers and Sellers can locate their nearby e-NAM mandi using the GPS-based mandi locator feature through the e-NAM mobile app.
This will helps the farmers to easily locate and reach the selected mandis and sell their agri-produce.
Weather Forecasting Details for e-NAM mandis
The union government has also launched weather forecasting details for e-NAM mandis all over the country.
Integration with AGMARKNET Platform
Farmer can access the prevailing commodity prices & arrival information of e-NAM mandi as well as non-e-NAM mandi on e-NAM mobile app. prior to even going to the mandi.
Awareness drives
Under the scheme, various training and awareness programs are conducted for farmers, traders, commission agents, and other stakeholders for the successful implementation of e-NAM.