The Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan
Singh launched six new features of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
Platform to make it more users friendly.
e-NAM is one of the major and important flagship schemes of the
Government of India which is being implemented by Ministry of
Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare with the objective of providing
competitive and remunerative price to farmers for their produce through
online competitive bidding process.
The six new features are e-NAM Mobile App includes-
1. MIS dashboard for better analysis,
2. BHIM payment facility by traders,
3. Mobile payment facility by traders,
4. Enhanced features on mobile app such as gate entry and payment through mobile,
5. Integration of farmer’s database, and
6. e-Learning module.
The objective was to bring more transparency and competition and
provide remunerative prices to farmers. Keeping in view the need of
making marketing of commodities easier for farmers.
e-NAM was envisioned and launched in 21 Mandis on 14th April 2016
which has now reached 479 Mandis across 14 states and 1 Union Territory.
e-NAM website is now available in eight different languages (Hindi,
English, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Odia) while the
live trading facility is available in six different languages (Hindi,
English, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi & Telugu).
