New Delhi, NFAPost: National Agriculture Market (e-NAM), a platform for better realization of prices by small and marginal farmers, successfully onboards 4392 Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) across various Indian states as on 28th February 2025.
Speaking at the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ramnath Thakur said to avail the facility farmers will have to do online registration through e-NAM portal and through mobile app (available on Android and iOS platform).
“It is indeed a great pleasure to that our Ministry imparted training programmes in Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and via toll-free number (18002700224) assists farmers in registration and trading process,” said Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ramnath Thakur.
As agro produce of small and marginal farmers may be less on individual basis, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ramnath Thakur said collectivising them as Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) provides economies of scale.
“FPOs aggregate produce of member farmers and can access e-NAM through FPO trading module. Additionally, by using the farm gate module a farmer can offer his produce without physically travelling to the APMC,” said Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ramnath Thakur.
Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) are regulated by the Agricultural Produce Market Committee Act of the respective state. For online inter-state trade, enabling provisions to recognize the trading licenses of other states is required.
Considering logistics challenges in promotion of Inter-State and Inter-mandi trade under e-NAM, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ramnath Thakur said the government has taken a decision to upgrade e-NAM platform as e-NAM 2.0, which will facilitate the onboarding of various logistic service providers.
“The objective of this initiative is to overcome logistic gaps and enable faster trade, reduced wastage and better farmer incomes. Based on requests received from state government departments / state agriculture marketing boards, the tradable parameters for respective commodities are finalised. As on 28th Feb, 2025, tradable parameters for 231 commodities were finalised for online auction on the e-NAM platform,” said Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ramnath Thakur.
It has been decided to upgrade the existing e-NAM platform to make it more efficient, robust, user-friendly, inclusive, scalable and open-network compliant. The main features of e-NAM 2.0 would be bank account validation, eKYC features using Aadhaar and onboarding of assaying, logistics and other value-added service providers.
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