Lok Sabha Question No. 1266 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-03
Subject: APMC Markets integrated with e-NAM Platform
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Thiru Thanga Tamilselvan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1266

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 3 RD  DECEMBER, 2024

## APMC MARKETS INTEGRATED WITH e-NAM PLATFORM

1266. THIRU THANGA TAMILSELVAN:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण मंğी be pleased to state:

- (a) the total number of APMC markets that have been integrated with e-NAM platform as of March 2024 in the State of Tamil Nadu;
- (b) the  number  of  APMC  markets  that  are  yet  to  be  integrated  with  e-NAM  and  the timeline for their integration in the State of Tamil Nadu;
- (c) the  details  of  infrastructure  facilities  viz.  number  of  functional  assaying  laboratories, quality  testing  equipment,  electronic  weighing  machines  available  in  e-NAM-integrated markets in the State of Tamil Nadu;
- (d) the  funds  allocated  and  utilized  for  development  of  e-NAM  infrastructure  during  the last three years in the State of Tamil Nadu, year-wise; and
- (e) the  steps  being  taken  by the  Government  to  strengthen  e-NAM  infrastructure  in  the State of Tamil Nadu?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण राÏय मंğी (SHRI BHAGIRATH CHOUDHARY)

- (a) & (b): As  on 31.03.2024,  157  Agricultural  Produce  Market  Committee  (APMC) markets  of  Tamil  Nadu  have  been  integrated  with  National  Agriculture  Market  (e-NAM) platform. 127 markets are yet to be integrated with e-NAM.
- (c): All  the  157  markets  are  provided  with  all  the  quality  testing  equipment  such  as electronic weighing balance, digital moisture meter, digital hot air oven, NIR and commodity specific  equipment  such  as  automatic  grading,  sorting,  weighting  and  bagging  machine, pulses, maize, sorghum grading and sorting machine, groundnut decorticator, turmeric boiler, polisher etc.

The  total  functional  assaying  laboratories  with  proper  facilities  are  30  and  the remaining  127  e-NAM  mandis  are  functioning  with  available  facilities  with  all  the  assaying equipment.

- (d): The year-wise, funds allocated  and utilized for  development  of e-NAM infrastructure during the last three years in the State of Tamil Nadu is as follows:-

| Year    | No. of market   | Amount Received (In Rs. Crore)   | Expenditure incurred by Govt. of Tamil Nadu (In Rs. Crore)   |
|---------|-----------------|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| 2021-22 | -               | -                                | -                                                            |
| 2022-23 | 64              | 19.20                            | 19.20                                                        |
| 2023-24 | 30              | 8.93                             | 8.93                                                         |

(e): Government of Tamil Nadu has informed that Rs.112.38 crore has been sanctioned for strengthening infrastructure facilities like godowns, bidding rooms, grading and assaying halls, transaction sheds and drying yards through NABARD loan assistance.

To  augment  the  existing  infrastructure  facilities  in  90  regulated  markets,  the  State Government also sanctioned Rs.217.92 crore under Warehouse Infrastructure Fund (WIF) for storage  godowns,  closed  auction  sheds,  cleaning  and  grading  hall,  drying  yards  and electronic information boards etc.

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