🔆 e-NAM
✅Launched: 2016
✅Implementing agency: Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC).
✅Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.
✅Objective: integrating the existing Mandis into a “One Nation One Market” for agricultural commodities in India.
▪️Salient Features:
✅e-NAM 2.0 will be an advanced version of existing e-NAM.
✅The eNAM platform is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India.
✅It is a pan-India electronic trade portal linking agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) across all states.
✅It facilitates farmers, traders, and buyers with online trading in commodities.
✅It provides for contactless remote bidding.
✅It provides for mobile-based anytime payment for which traders do not need to either visit mandis or banks for the same.
▪️Benefits:
e-NAM has been able to bring competence in APMC mandi operations via technology interventions like:-
✅accuracy in weighing via digital weighbridge and weighing scale.
✅accuracy in assaying via advanced assaying equipment.
real-time online information on commodity prices.
✅access to more buyers/sellers and transparency in trade.
✅transparency in payment via multiple online payment modes.
better efficiency in overall mandi operations via digitalization
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