Empowering Farmers of Himachal Pradesh through E-NAM
Kiran *
HP State Agricultural Marketing Board, Khalini, Shimla, India.
Disha Gupta
HP State Agricultural Marketing Board, Khalini, Shimla, India.
Amit Kanawjia
College of Horticulture, BUAT, Banda, India.
Bhavna Thakur
School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, DBS Group, Selaqui, Dehradun, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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.
Keywords: E-NAM, farmers welfare, agricultural market