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The Centre has integrated 250 agricultural mandis across 10 States into the online trading platform for agriculture produce, e-NAM, surpassing the target of 200 set for the period.
Commodities worth ₹421 crore have already been traded on the platform and more than 1,60,000 farmers and 46,888 traders have got themselves registered, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said at a press conference here on Thursday. The Minister also launched a mobile App to help farmers access information related to prices of commodities traded on the e-NAM platform in a bid to motivate more of them to join the initiative.
“Most States and agriculture mandi boards have cooperated very well with us. At this pace, we could meet our goal of connecting all 585 regulated mandis by December 2017,” Singh said.
The Agriculture Ministry had set a target of connecting all 585 mandis to the e-platform by March 2018.
E-Nam, or the National Agriculture Market, is a pan-India electronic portal for sale and purchase of agricultural produce, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in April this year. It was initially launched in 22 mandis in eight States.
The idea behind the online market is to reduce transaction costs, provide a single license valid across all markets, help farmers identify the best buyers, enable a single-point levy of market fees and maintain quality standards with provision of quality testing.
About 69 agricultural and horticultural commodities, including fruits and vegetables are notified for trading on the e-NAM platform.
Giving an update on the status of APMC Act amendments that States need to carry out to allow e-Nam, Singh said that 17 States and one Union Territory had practically modified their APMC Acts.
These include Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattishgarh, Mizoram, Punjab, Maharashtra, UP, Uttarkhand, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Haryana and Chandigarh.
Three States and one Union Territory (Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Assam and Puducherry) have agreed to make changes in their respective Acts, he said.
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