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Government of India
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
09-July-2019 15:35 IST
More than 1.64 crore farmers have registered on e-NAM platform till 30th June 2019: Agriculture Minister

 National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is envisaged as a pan-India electronic trading platform launched by Government of India on 14th April, 2016 with the objective of creating online transparent competitive price discovery system to facilitate farmers with remunerative prices for their produce.   585 wholesale regulated markets of 16 States and 02 Union Territories (UTs) have been integrated with e-NAM platform.

As on 30.06.2019, more than 1.64 crore farmers & more than 1.24 Lakhs traders have been registered on e-NAM platform. Further trade transactions having total volume of 2,58,76,016 MT with total value of Rs.71,069 crore, have been recorded on e-NAM platform till 30.06.2019.

 

 Details of agriculture based trading portals launched in the country are as follows:

 

(i) National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) an online trading portal was launched by Govt. of India on 14th April, 2016.

 

(ii) Rajasthan Integrate Mandi Management System (RIMMS) was launched on 2nd February, 2016 by Department of Agricultural Marketing, Government of Rajasthan.

 

(iii) Karnataka has its own electronic platform named “Unified Market Platform (UMP)”. UMP which started it’s operation from February, 2014.

 

(iv). Maharashtra has implemented Computerized Auction System (CAS) in APMCs in the State since 2014.

 

 State-wise number of farmers benefited under e-NAM scheme is as below:-

 

 

State-wise farmers benefited under e-NAM Scheme

 

Farmers Registration and Benefited From April-2016 to 15-June-2019

S. No.

State

Registered Farmer

Farmers Benefited

1

ANDHRA PRADESH

1425025

1123085

2

CHANDIGARH

7106

6801

3

CHHATTISGARH

134715

122678

4

GUJARAT

864970

432457

5

HARYANA

2716608

1765449

6

HIMACHAL PRADESH

118248

96747

7

JHARKHAND

77171

2142

8

MADHYA PRADESH

3009991

1080704

9

MAHARASHTRA

1134993

281022

10

ODISHA

52597

9949

11

PUDUCHERRY

10580

11482

12

PUNJAB

210423

125270

13

RAJASTHAN

1305896

595625

14

TAMIL NADU

201311

86510

15

TELANGANA

1815595

1537989

16

UTTAR PRADESH

3296625

722980

17

UTTARAKHAND

47525

29765

18

WEST BENGAL

12714

2801

Total

1,64,42,093

80,33,456

 

This information was given by the Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

 

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