Empowering Farmers of Himachal Pradesh through E-NAM

Abstract

E-National Agricultural Market (E-NAM) was launched on 14.04.2016 with a vision to bring transparency, uniformity, to realize optimum price of farmers’ produce and to provide a national wide electronic platform for trading of agricultural commodities. It has provided an alternate in form of a national market for marketing of agricultural commodities other than traditional way of marketing.26 wholesale markets of Himachal Pradesh are linked with E-NAM portal. Initially, two mandis namely APMC Dhalli and APMC Solan were chosen as pilot mandis as on 14th April, 2016, subsequently 5 more mandis by September 2016 ,12 mandis by March, 2017and 7 mandis by June 2022 were integrated in phased manner with e-National Agriculture Market Portal. At present, in addition to 26 existing market yards, 12 more market yards are proposed to be brought in the ambit of e-NAM. NAM must ensure farmers get paid on time and in full. e NAM should also ensure that the entire ecosystem including assaying and grading works in tandem to ensure that all-India participation works well in order to get our farmers a remunerative price for their produce.