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New Delhi : A total of 38 additional mandis were integrated with the eNAM platform on May 15, 2020, thus achieving milestone of integration of 415 mandis as per the planned target. The 38 Mandis integrated are in Madhya Pradesh (19), Telangana (10), Maharashtra (4), and One each from Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Kerala & J&K.
With the overall success of 585 mandis in Phase 1 and further expanding its wings to integrate 415 new mandis in Phase 2, the e-NAM platform now has a total number of 1,000 mandis across 18 States & 3 UTs, according to a PIB release.
The e-NAM is being implemented by the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) being the lead agency for the project under the aegis of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, with the support of all the e-NAM States/UTs, State Marketing Boards, Mandi secretaries, Supervisors, Quality Assayers, Weighment Operators, Service Providers, Farmers, FPOs, Traders and eNAM team.
National Agriculture Market (eNAM), a pan-India electronic trading portal, was launched on April 14, 2016, by PM Narendra Modi with the aim of networking the existing Mandis on a common online market platform as “One Nation One Market” for agricultural commodities in India.
This digital initiative of Government of India provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services, including commodity arrivals, quality assaying, competitive bid offers and electronic payment settlement directly into farmers’ accounts. This online digital market aims at reducing transaction costs, bridging information asymmetries, and helping expansion of market access for farmers and other stakeholders.
In last 4 years, the e-NAM has registered a user base of 1.66 crore farmers, 1.31 lakh Traders, 73,151 Commission Agents, and 1,012 FPOs. As on May 14,2020, total volume of 3.43 Crore MT & 38.16 Lakh numbers (Bamboo & Coconut) collectively crossed a remarkable business milestone worth Rs 1 lakh crore on e-NAM platform. At present, 150 commodities, including Foodgrains, Oilseeds, Fibers, Fruits & Vegetables, are traded on eNAM.
To address the difficulties facing the farmers due to the COVID19 lockdown crisis, Union Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, on April 2, 2020 launched 3 new modules of eNAM.
1. FPO Module on eNAM: This enables FPOs to conduct trade of commodities from their collection centres declared as “Deemed Market” or “Sub Market yards”. As on May 14, 2020, 1,012 FPOs are registered on e-NAM platform, and have traded 3,053 MT of agri-produce worth Rs 8.11 Crore.
2. Warehouse based Electronic Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (eNWR) trading: For eNWR based trading, WDRA accredited warehouses from Andhra Pradesh (23) and Telangana (14) have been declared as deemed market by respective State Governments. Rajasthan Government has recently declared 138 State Government & cooperative warehouses as sub market yards. Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab have initiated amendments in their respective acts to facilitate warehouse based trade.
3. Logistics Module: This facilitates transportation of the commodities from farm to Mandis and from Mandis to warehouse/consumption centres. Nine logistic service providers/aggregators linked with 2.3 lakh transporters and 11.37 lakh vehicles have been on-boarded on eNAM platform.
On May 1, 2020, Inter-Operability between ReMS (Unified Market Portal-UMP) and e-NAM portal was launched. In this new module farmers and traders across ReMS (UMP) of Karnataka and e-NAM platform can conduct inter-platform trade to access more markets for trade using inter-operability features and vice-versa.