National Agriculture Market (eNAM)

National Agriculture Market (eNAM), launched on 14^th April, 2016 is a pan-India electronic trading portal which seeks to network the existing physical APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. NAM seeks to address the limitations of current APMC mandis and is being implemented by Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC), by Ministry of Agriculture.

Objectives

The scheme was launched with the following objectives-

• Promoting uniformity in agriculture marketing by streamlining of procedures across the integrated markets.
• Removing information asymmetry between buyers and sellers.
• Promoting real time price discovery based on actual demand and supply.

It is step towards the ....