{"id":20124,"date":"2024-02-05T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20124"},"modified":"2025-04-05T22:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:02:34","slug":"what-is-national-agriculture-market-enam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-national-agriculture-market-enam\/","title":{"rendered":"What is National Agriculture Market (eNAM)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About eNAM:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>online trading platformfor agricultural commodities<\/strong> in India.<\/li>\n<li>It was launched on April 14, 2016, and is <strong>completely funded by the Government of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC)<\/strong> acts as the <strong>lead agency for implementing <\/strong>e-Nam under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer\u2019s Welfare.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It aims to create better marketing opportunities <strong>for the farmers to sell their productsthrough<\/strong> a <strong>competitive and transparent price discovery system,<\/strong> along with an <strong>online payment facility for the buyers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The NAM portal <strong>networks the existing APMC<\/strong> (Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee) \/ Regulated Marketing Committee (RMC) <strong>market yards, sub-market yards<\/strong>, private markets,<strong> and other unregulated marketsto unify all the nationwide agricultural markets<\/strong> by creating a central online platform for agricultural commodity price discovery.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o It will <strong>enable farmers to showcase their products<\/strong> through their nearby markets and <strong>facilitate traders from anywhere to quote prices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>o It provides <strong>single-window services for all APMC related services<\/strong> and information. This includes commodity arrivals, quality and prices, buy-and-sell offers, and e-payment settlements directly into farmer\u2019s accounts, among other services.<\/p>\n<p>o Using the eNAM service, <strong>licenses for traders, buyers,and commission agentscan be obtained f<\/strong>rom state-level authorities <strong>without any pre-condition of the physical presenceor possession of a shop<\/strong> or premises <strong>in the market yard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Harmonisation of quality standards<\/strong> of agricultural products and <strong>infrastructure for quality testing<\/strong> are made available in every market.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Provision of Soil Testing Laboratories<\/strong> is provided for the selected mandi (market) in order to facilitate the farmers visiting the mandi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>e-NAM is designed and implemented to <strong>benefitall the stakeholders<\/strong>: <strong>farmers, mandis, traders, buyers,<\/strong> Farmer Producer Organization <strong>(FPOs), processers, and exporters<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The benefits to stakeholders include:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o Transparent <strong>online trading<\/strong> with <strong>enhanced accessibility <\/strong>to the market.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Real-time price discovery<\/strong> for better and more <strong>stable price realization<\/strong> for producers.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Reduced transaction costs<\/strong> for buyers.<\/p>\n<p>o Availability of information on the e-NAM mobile app about commodity prices.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>The details of the price<\/strong> of commodity sold, along with the quantity, are <strong>received through SMS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Quality certification<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>o More efficient supply chain and warehouse-based sales.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Online payment directly<\/strong> to the bank accounts of the farmers<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is APMC (Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee)?<\/h3>\n<p>APMC is a statutory market committee constituted by a State Government in respect of trade in certain notified agricultural or horticultural or livestock products, under the Agricultural Produce Market Committee Act issued by that state government.Every APMC is a centralized market place, a meeting point for seller&#8217;s ,buyers and agent&#8217;s.A.P.M.C.regulate the wholesale selling of agriculture produce in their defined area of operation.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/policy\/economy-farm-gate-inter-mandi-e-nam-sales-surge-in-fy24-18-million-farmers-across-1361-mandis-on-the-platform-3384093\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Farm-gate, inter-mandi e-NAM sales surge in FY24; 18 million farmers, across 1361 mandis on the platform<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eNAM  is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}