eNAM (National Agriculture Market)

National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing Agricultural Produce Market Committee(APMC) to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. The e-NAM portal provides single window services for all APMC related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals, quality & prices, buy & sell offers and e-payment settlement directly into farmers’ account, among other services. It aims to promote uniformity in agriculture marketing by streamlining of procedures across the integrated markets, removing information asymmetry between buyers and sellers and promoting real-time price discovery based on actual demand and supply. The eNAM markets are widely used as the crops are weighed and the stock is lifted typically on the same day and the payments are cleared online. Additional system improvement since February 2018 allowed enhanced features on the mobile app such as gate entry and payment through mobile phones and farmers database is helping adoption even more.

Lead (category)

Government multi-agencies

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare (DAC&FW)

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agrifood Services

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

It's business model promotes uniformity in agriculture marketing by streamlining of procedures across the integrated markets, removing information asymmetry between buyers and sellers and promoting real-time price discovery based on actual demand and supply.

DI ICT-deliverables format

Web-based platform

Mobile applications

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Agribusiness / private organization

Traders (or marketing agents)

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution