Lok Sabha Question No. 2721 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-02
Subject: Functioning of eNAM
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Feroze Varun Gandhi, Manoj Rajoria, Nishikant  Dubey, Sumedhanand Saraswati, Ranjeeta Koli

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2721

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 2 ND  AUGUST, 2022

## FUNCTIONING OF eNAM

2721.  SHRI FEROZE VARUN GANDHI: DR. MANOJ RAJORIA: DR. NISHIKANT DUBEY: SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI: SHRIMATI RANJEETA KOLI:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ षि एवं ककसान कल्याण मंत्री be pleased to state:

- (a) the main objectives of the National Agriculture Market (eNAM) scheme along with the criteria for inclusion under it;
- (b) the  main  stakeholders  of  National  Agriculture  Market  (eNAM)  scheme  and  the details of the benefits which the stakeholders get from the scheme;
- (c) the assistance provided by the Ministry for the implementation of the scheme;
- (d) the reach and major achievements of the National Agricultural Market;
- (e) the  total  number  of  farmers,  traders  and  mandis  registered  under  the  eNAM platform  so  far,  State-wise  including  Jharkhand  especially  Santhal  Pargana  and Gujarat, district-wise;
- (f) the total value of trade that has taken place through the platform and the number of States that have implemented the programme; and
- (g) the number of small farmers benefitted under the programme?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ षि एवं ककसान कल्याण मंत्री (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) to (c): In  order  to  facilitate  farmers  with  remunerative  prices  for  their  produce through  online  competitive  bidding  system  in  transparent  manner,  the  Government  is implementing National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Scheme.

Under the scheme, three reforms are mandatory for States/Union Territories (UTs) in  their  respective  State  Agricultural  Produce  Market  Committee  (APMC)  Acts  for integrating  their  mandis  with  e-NAM  platform  i.e.  (i)  Provision  for  e-trading,  (ii)  Single point  levy  of  market  fee  and  (iii)  Unified  Single  trading  license  for  the  State.  States without  APMC  Act  need  to  provide  legally  enforceable  guidelines  and  institutional mechanism  for  implementing  e-NAM.  Based  on  the  proposals  received  from  the compliant  States/Union  Territories  (UTs),  mandis  are  considered  for  integration  by Government of India with e-NAM platform.

Government of India is providing free software and assistance upto Rs 75 Lakh per  mandi  under  e-NAM for  related  hardware/  infrastructure  including  quality  assaying equipments and for creation of infrastructure  like  cleaning,  grading,  sorting,  packaging and compost unit etc. In addition, a Mandi Analyst for each e-NAM mandi is provided for a  year  for  handholding  support.  Under  the  scheme,  various  training  &  awareness programmes are conducted for farmers, traders and  other  stakeholders for  successful implementation of e-NAM.

The  main  stakeholders  of  e-NAM  scheme  are  Farmers,  Traders,  Commission agents,  Farmer  Producer  Organisations,  State  Agriculture  Marketing  Board  /  Dept, Mandis etc. e-NAM platform promotes better marketing opportunities for the farmers to sell their produce through online, competitive and transparent price discovery system and online  payment facility.  It  also  promotes  prices  commensurate  with  quality  of  produce. Farmers can access prevailing commodity prices information on e-NAM  mobile application  prior  to  even  going  to  mandi.  Government  has  also  provided  e-payment facility  on  e-NAM  platform.  e-payment  facility  enables  sale  proceeds  in  e-NAM  to  be directly  transferred  from  buyers  account  to  the  bank  account  of  the  farmers  in  a transparent,  speedy  and  safe  manner.  All  these  contribute  towards  better  marketing efficiency  and  also  better  prices  to  farmers.  Further,  Government  has  launched  FPO trading module to enable FPOs to upload their produce from collection centres/ farm gate with  picture/  quality  parameter  for  on-line  bidding  without  physically  bringing  their produce  to  the  mandis.  Traders  can  also  access  to  real  time  information  related  to arrivals and trade in e-NAM mandis.

(d) to (g): So far, 1000 mandis of 18 States and 3 UTs have been integrated with eNAM platform for providing markets access to farmers to sell their agriculture produce.

Following are some of the major achievements of the e-NAM platform:-

- i. As on 30.06.2022, more than 1.73 crore farmers & more than 2.26 Lakhs traders have been registered on e-NAM platform.
- ii. Already trading parameters for 193 agricultural and horticultural commodities  such  as  cereals,  pulses,  oilseeds,  fruits  &  vegetables,  spices, flowers and fiber crops have been provided.
- iii. FPO  trading  module  has  been  launched  whereby  FPOs  can  trade  their produce  from  their  collection  center/  premise  without  bringing  the  produce  to APMC.
- iv. Warehouse based trading module is provided in e-NAM to facilitate trade from warehouses based on e-NWR.
- v. Further the e-NAM platform is made interoperable with Rashtriya e Market Services  Private  Limited  (ReMS)  platform  of  Government  of  Karnataka  which will  facilitate  famers  of  either  platforms  to  sell  their  produce  in  other  platform thereby increasing their market access.
- vi. GPS  Based  e-NAM  Mandi  Locator:  Farmers  /  Sellers  can  locate  their nearby e-NAM mandi using GPS based mandi locator feature through e-NAM mobile app. This will helps the farmers to easily locate and reach the selected mandis and sell their agri-produce.
- vii. Integration with AGMARKNET platform: Farmer can access the prevailing commodity prices & arrival information of e-NAM mandi as well as non e-NAM mandi on e-NAM mobile app. prior to even going to the mandi.
- viii. e-NAM  portal  is  available  in  English  and  11  Indian  languages  (Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Odiya, Dogri, Malayalam and Kannada) to facilitate  farmers  to  use  e-NAM  in  the  language  of  their  choice.

State wise details of the total number of farmers & traders registered and mandis integrated  on  e-NAM  platform  is  at  Annexure-I.  The  details  of  Santhal  Pargana, Jharkhand  is  at  Annexure-II.  The  details  of  Gujarat  (District  wise)  is  provided  in Annexure-III.

As on 30.06.2022, the agricultural produce trade with a value of Rs 2.04 lakh crore have  so  far  been  recorded  on  e-NAM  platform.  Under  e-NAM  platform,  there  is  no provision to categorize small farmers.

## Annexure I

## State/UT wise No. of Mandis integrated, Total Trade Value, Farmers and Traders registered on e-NAM ( till June 2022)

| Sl. No   | State            | No of mandis (APMC) integrated   | No. of Farmers registered   | No. of Traders registered   | Total Trade Value (Rs Crore)   |
|----------|------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh   | 33                               | 1444989                     | 3478                        | 30890                          |
| 2        | Chhattisgarh     | 14                               | 135251                      | 3125                        | 1595                           |
| 3        | Gujarat          | 122                              | 868911                      | 9401                        | 5793                           |
| 4        | Haryana          | 81                               | 2725240                     | 14424                       | 62757                          |
| 5        | Himachal Pradesh | 19                               | 124417                      | 2010                        | 1031                           |
| 6        | Jharkhand        | 19                               | 246637                      | 2299                        | 37                             |
| 7        | Karnataka        | 2                                | 1453                        | 655                         | 684                            |
| 8        | Kerala           | 6                                | 2728                        | 346                         | 1                              |
| 9        | Madhya Pradesh   | 80                               | 3021934                     | 22337                       | 16486                          |
| 10       | Maharashtra      | 118                              | 1216445                     | 21510                       | 9187                           |
| 11       | Odisha           | 41                               | 279393                      | 7393                        | 1540                           |
| 12       | Punjab           | 37                               | 217429                      | 2589                        | 9093                           |
| 13       | Rajasthan        | 144                              | 1500477                     | 82359                       | 38794                          |
| 14       | Tamil Nadu       | 63                               | 307714                      | 4358                        | 1505                           |
| 15       | Telangana        | 57                               | 1823782                     | 5799                        | 16661                          |
| 16       | Uttar Pradesh    | 125                              | 3300715                     | 35029                       | 7894                           |
| 17       | Uttarakhand      | 16                               | 54305                       | 4728                        | 357                            |
| 18       | West Bengal      | 18                               | 48453                       | 3884                        | 58                             |
| S. No    | Union Territory  | Union Territory                  | Union Territory             | Union Territory             |                                |
| 19       | Chandigarh       | 1                                | 7106                        | 114                         | 472                            |
| 20       | Jammu & Kashmir  | 2                                | 944                         | 121                         | 2                              |
| 21       | Puducherry       | 2                                | 13529                       | 180                         | 112                            |
| Total    | Total            | 1000                             | 17341852                    | 226139                      | 204949                         |

Details of Santhal Pargana, Jharkhand (Deoghar, Dumka, Godda, Jamtara, Pakur,

Sahebganj)

|   S. No | State     | District   | Mandi integrated   |   Farmers Registered |   Traders Registered |
|---------|-----------|------------|--------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
|       1 | Jharkhand | Deoghar    | Deoghar            |                 6225 |                  302 |
|       2 | Jharkhand | Dumka      | Dumka              |                 3834 |                   81 |
|       3 | Jharkhand | Pakur      | Pakur              |                29726 |                   52 |
|       4 | Jharkhand | Sahebganj  | Sahebganj          |                 4546 |                   12 |

## Annexure III

## Details of Gujarat - District-wise Mandis integrated, Farmers &Traders registered

## ( till June 2022)

|   S. No | State   | Mandi integrated   | District       |   Farmers Registered |   Traders Registered |
|---------|---------|--------------------|----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
|       1 | Gujarat | Ahmedabad          | Ahmedabad      |                22671 |                   84 |
|       2 | Gujarat | Amreli             | Amreli         |                 1154 |                   58 |
|       3 | Gujarat | Anand              | Anand          |                   33 |                    5 |
|       4 | Gujarat | Anjar              | Kutch          |                  515 |                   11 |
|       5 | Gujarat | Babra              | Amreli         |                 1380 |                   22 |
|       6 | Gujarat | Bagasara           | Amreli         |                   60 |                    6 |
|       7 | Gujarat | Bardoli            | Surat          |                  207 |                    4 |
|       8 | Gujarat | Bavla              | Ahmedabad      |                   32 |                    3 |
|       9 | Gujarat | Bayad              | Aravalli       |                    8 |                    2 |
|      10 | Gujarat | Bhabhar            | Banaskantha    |                13275 |                  121 |
|      11 | Gujarat | Bharuch            | Bharuch        |                  113 |                   15 |
|      12 | Gujarat | Bhavnagar          | Bhavnagar      |                 2252 |                  103 |
|      13 | Gujarat | Bhesan             | Junagadh       |                 5496 |                   72 |
|      14 | Gujarat | Bhiloda            | Aravalli       |                11174 |                   41 |
|      15 | Gujarat | Bhuj               | Kutch          |                  650 |                   53 |
|      16 | Gujarat | Bilimora           | Navsari        |                 1285 |                   15 |
|      17 | Gujarat | Bodeli             | Chhota Udaipur |                 1037 |                    7 |
|      18 | Gujarat | Borsad             | Anand          |                   59 |                    4 |
|      19 | Gujarat | Botad              | Botad          |                51238 |                  328 |
|      20 | Gujarat | Chikhli            | Navsari        |                   23 |                    3 |
|      21 | Gujarat | Chotila            | Surendranagar  |                   12 |                    6 |
|      22 | Gujarat | Dabhoi             | Vadodara       |                  195 |                    2 |
|      23 | Gujarat | Dahod              | Dahod          |                54875 |                  354 |
|      24 | Gujarat | Dediyapada         | Narmada        |                   24 |                    2 |
|      25 | Gujarat | Deesa              | Banaskantha    |                26638 |                  311 |
|      26 | Gujarat | Dehgam             | Gandhinagar    |                 6838 |                   22 |
|      27 | Gujarat | Devgadbaria        | Dahod          |                    4 |                    3 |
|      28 | Gujarat | Dhandhuka          | Ahmedabad      |                  162 |                   11 |
|      29 | Gujarat | Dhanera            | Banaskantha    |                11999 |                  367 |
|      30 | Gujarat | Dhari              | Amreli         |                   11 |                   13 |
|      31 | Gujarat | Dhoalka            | Ahmedabad      |                 2161 |                   65 |
|      32 | Gujarat | Dhoraji            | Rajkot         |                 2584 |                   51 |
|      33 | Gujarat | Dhrol              | Jamnagar       |                30648 |                   39 |
|      34 | Gujarat | Fatehpura          | Dahod          |                   33 |                    4 |

|   35 | Gujarat   | Gadhada         | Botad            |   1488 |    1 |
|------|-----------|-----------------|------------------|--------|------|
|   36 | Gujarat   | Gandhinagar     | Gandhinagar      |     80 |   13 |
|   37 | Gujarat   | Gariyadhar      | Bhavnagar        |     22 |    2 |
|   38 | Gujarat   | Godhra          | Panchamahal      |   4761 |  178 |
|   39 | Gujarat   | Gondal          | Rajkot           |   2838 |   52 |
|   40 | Gujarat   | Halvad          | Morbi            |   2494 |  734 |
|   41 | Gujarat   | Himmatnagar     | Sabarkantha      |  34150 |  223 |
|   42 | Gujarat   | Idar            | Sabarkantha      |    624 |   28 |
|   43 | Gujarat   | Jam Jodhpur     | Jamnagar         |  13876 |  104 |
|   44 | Gujarat   | Jamkandorna     | Rajkot           |      9 |    1 |
|   45 | Gujarat   | Jamkhambhaliy a | Devbhoomi Dwarka |   1389 |   15 |
|   46 | Gujarat   | Jamnagar        | Jamnagar         |  12181 |  142 |
|   47 | Gujarat   | Jasdan          | Rajkot           |  16238 |   99 |
|   48 | Gujarat   | Jetpur          | Rajkot           |   5441 |   66 |
|   49 | Gujarat   | Jhagadiya       | Bharuch          |     18 |    2 |
|   50 | Gujarat   | Jhalod          | Dahod            |   4259 |  111 |
|   51 | Gujarat   | Junagadh        | Junagadh         |   6031 |  225 |
|   52 | Gujarat   | Kadi            | Mehsana          |    138 |    6 |
|   53 | Gujarat   | Kalavad         | Jamnagar         |    110 |    7 |
|   54 | Gujarat   | Kalol           | Gandhinagar      |   1370 |    7 |
|   55 | Gujarat   | Kapadwanj       | Kheda            |    773 |   12 |
|   56 | Gujarat   | Karjan          | Vadodara         |    150 |   14 |
|   57 | Gujarat   | Kathlal         | Kheda            |    175 |    7 |
|   58 | Gujarat   | Keshod          | Junagadh         |     15 |    8 |
|   59 | Gujarat   | Khambhat        | Anand            |   1717 |   74 |
|   60 | Gujarat   | Kodinar         | Gir Somnath      |   5666 |   51 |
|   61 | Gujarat   | Kosamba         | Surat            |     42 |    2 |
|   62 | Gujarat   | Lalpur          | Jamnagar         |    171 |    5 |
|   63 | Gujarat   | Limkheda        | Dahod            |     17 |    6 |
|   64 | Gujarat   | Lunawada        | Mahisagar        |     92 |    7 |
|   65 | Gujarat   | Mahemdavad      | Kheda            |    777 |   20 |
|   66 | Gujarat   | Mahuva          | Bhavnagar        |  24429 | 1309 |
|   67 | Gujarat   | MahuvaGj        | Surat            |     28 |    2 |
|   68 | Gujarat   | Mandal          | Ahmedabad        |     19 |   11 |
|   69 | Gujarat   | Mandvi          | Kutch            |     29 |    6 |
|   70 | Gujarat   | Matar           | Kheda            |     64 |   11 |
|   71 | Gujarat   | Mehsana         | Mehsana          |   8154 |   66 |
|   72 | Gujarat   | Modasa          | Aravalli         |   2888 |   20 |
|   73 | Gujarat   | Morbi           | Morbi            |  31197 |   58 |

|   74 | Gujarat   | Nadiad      | Kheda          |    645 |   56 |
|------|-----------|-------------|----------------|--------|------|
|   75 | Gujarat   | Navsari     | Navsari        |    149 |    2 |
|   76 | Gujarat   | Nizar       | Tapi           |   3784 |   79 |
|   77 | Gujarat   | Padara      | Vadodara       |    124 |    5 |
|   78 | Gujarat   | Palanpur    | Banaskantha    |   1090 |  255 |
|   79 | Gujarat   | Palitana    | Bhavnagar      |      5 |    6 |
|   80 | Gujarat   | Panthawada  | Banaskantha    |    726 |   29 |
|   81 | Gujarat   | Patan       | Patan          |  26262 |  262 |
|   82 | Gujarat   | Patdi       | Surendranagar  |    224 |   21 |
|   83 | Gujarat   | Pavi-Jetpur | Chhota Udaipur |   4401 |   22 |
|   84 | Gujarat   | Petalad     | Anand          |   1050 |   91 |
|   85 | Gujarat   | Porbandar   | Porbandar      |   4344 |   45 |
|   86 | Gujarat   | Prantij     | Sabarkantha    |     60 |    5 |
|   87 | Gujarat   | Radhanpur   | Patan          |     58 |    8 |
|   88 | Gujarat   | Rajkot      | Rajkot         | 165774 |  611 |
|   89 | Gujarat   | Rajpipla    | Narmada        |     85 |    2 |
|   90 | Gujarat   | Rajula      | Amreli         |   2118 |   10 |
|   91 | Gujarat   | Rapar       | Kutch          |     91 |   16 |
|   92 | Gujarat   | Sanand      | Ahmedabad      |  42043 |  145 |
|   93 | Gujarat   | Sanjeli     | Dahod          |     11 |    5 |
|   94 | Gujarat   | Savarkundla | Amreli         |  12095 |   73 |
|   95 | Gujarat   | Savli       | Vadodara       |   4876 |   32 |
|   96 | Gujarat   | Selamba     | Narmada        |     35 |   16 |
|   97 | Gujarat   | Siddhpur    | Patan          |  29159 |  167 |
|   98 | Gujarat   | Sihor       | Bhavnagar      |    146 |    6 |
|   99 | Gujarat   | Songadh     | Tapi           |     62 |    5 |
|  100 | Gujarat   | Talaja      | Bhavnagar      |      7 |    5 |
|  101 | Gujarat   | Talod       | Sabarkantha    |   6955 |  116 |
|  102 | Gujarat   | Tarapur     | Anand          |    767 |   32 |
|  103 | Gujarat   | Thara       | Banaskantha    |  10739 |  184 |
|  104 | Gujarat   | Tharad      | Banaskantha    |  27001 |  184 |
|  105 | Gujarat   | Thasra      | Kheda          |    111 |    7 |
|  106 | Gujarat   | Tilakvada   | Narmada        |     85 |    2 |
|  107 | Gujarat   | Umrala      | Bhavnagar      |     81 |    1 |
|  108 | Gujarat   | Una         | Gir Somnath    |     18 |    3 |
|  109 | Gujarat   | Unava       | Mehsana        |     18 |    4 |
|  110 | Gujarat   | Upleta      | Rajkot         |   2084 |    2 |
|  111 | Gujarat   | Vadali      | Sabarkantha    |    178 |   14 |
|  112 | Gujarat   | Vadhvan     | Surendranagar  |   6503 |   77 |

|   113 | Gujarat   | Vadodara   | Vadodara   |   4532 |   157 |
|-------|-----------|------------|------------|--------|-------|
|   114 | Gujarat   | Valabhipur | Bhavnagar  |     17 |     2 |
|   115 | Gujarat   | Valia      | Bharuch    |     72 |    22 |
|   116 | Gujarat   | Valsad     | Valsad     |    720 |    69 |
|   117 | Gujarat   | Vijapur    | Mehsana    |  23950 |    76 |
|   118 | Gujarat   | Vinchhiya  | Rajkot     |   1175 |     7 |
|   119 | Gujarat   | Visavadar  | Junagadh   |   7458 |    75 |
|   120 | Gujarat   | Visnagar   | Mehsana    |  43095 |   450 |
|   121 | Gujarat   | Vyara      | Tapi       |   1125 |    23 |
|   122 | Gujarat   | Wankaner   | Morbi      |     37 |     3 |

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