Tuesday, 9 July 2019

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 14thApril, 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.

Courtesy: pib.gov.in

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