Many initiatives have been undertaken in order to encourage small and marginal farmers to participate in National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) for better realization of prices. Facility of online registration through e-NAM portal and through mobile app (available on Android and iOS platform) is provided. Training programmes are conducted in Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and toll-free number (18002700224) to assist farmers in registration & trading process.

As agro produce of small and marginal farmers may be less on individual basis, collectivizing 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.

As on 28.02.2025, 4392 FPOs have been on-boarded on e-NAM platform.

Additionally, by using the farm gate module a farmer can offer his produce without physically travelling to the APMC.

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, 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 Agri. Marketing Boards, the tradable parameters for respective commodities are finalized.  As on 28^th Feb, 2025, tradable parameters for 231 commodities were finalized for online auction on the e-NAM platform.

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.

This information was given by Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Ramnath Thakur in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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