e-NAM "EMPOWER IAS"

In news:

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched new features of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Platform.

More form the news:

It will help strengthen agriculture marketing by farmers which will reduce their need to come to wholesale mandis for selling their harvested produce, at a time when there is critical need to decongest mandis to effectively fight against COVID-19.
These software modules are namely:
- Warehouse based trading module in e-NAM software to facilitate trade from warehouses based on e-NWR,
- FPO trading module in e-NAM whereby FPOs can trade their produce from their collection center without bringing the produce to APMC.
- Enhanced version of logistic module has been released to facilitate inter-mandi and inter-state trade at this juncture.

These software modules are warehouse based trading module in e-NAM software and Farmer Producer Organisation trading module in e-NAM.

What is e-NAM?

National Agriculture Market (NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.
It is managed by Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium(SFAC) under Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers' Welfare.
The NAM Portal provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services.
It currently links 450 APMCs from across 13states, different commodities including staple food grains, vegetables and fruits are currently listed in its list of commodities available for trade.
Traders and exporters need to get themselves registered with the portal to access its services.
This includes commodity arrivals & prices, buy & sell trade offers, provision to respond to trade offers, among other services.
The NAM portal is a single window service for any information and services related to APMC that includes:

The NAM reduces the transaction costs and information irregularity even when the agriculture produce continues to flow through the mandis.
The states can administer agriculture marketing as per their agri-marketing regulations, under which, the State is divided into various market areas and each market area is administered by a separate APMC which will impose its own marketing regulation that include fees.

VISION

To promote uniformity in agriculture marketing by streamlining of procedures across the integrated markets, removing information asymmetry between buyers and sellers and promoting real time price discovery based on actual demand and supply.

MISSION

Integration of APMCs across the country through a common online market platform to facilitate pan-India trade in agriculture commodities, providing better price discovery through transparent auction process based on quality of produce along with timely online payment.

Implementing Agency:

Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is the lead promoter of NAM.
SFAC is a registered society of the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare (DAC&FW) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare.

Objectives of NAM:

A nation-wide e-market portal for transparent sale and transactions and price discovery in the regulated markets.
The States can promote the e-trading as per their APMC Act and enact suitable provision under the act by their State Agricultural Marketing Board/APMC.
Liberal licensing of traders or buyers and commission agents by State authorities without any pre-condition of physical presence or possession of shop or premises in the market yard.
One license for a trader valid across all markets in the State.
Synchronisation of quality standards of agricultural commodities and facility for assessing (quality testing) infrastructure in every market to facilitate informed bidding by buyers.
Single point tax of market fees on the first wholesale purchase from the farmer.
Soil Testing Laboratories facility in/or near the particular mandi to help visiting farmers to access this provision in the mandi itself.

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