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e-NAM
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- To further improve agricultural marketing, the Government in 2016 launched a National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) to enable the farmers to transparently sell their produce to large number of buyers accessing multiple markets electronically.
- Thus, the eNAM portal aimed at networking the mandis to “One Nation One Market” for agricultural commodities in the country.
- So far, 1361 APMC mandis have been registered with eNAM out of which 365 mandis are actively trading online.
- The eNAM has made satisfactory progress and plays an imperative role in augmenting farmers income by providing several benefits such as transparency in trade, access to better price discovery, entry to more markets, real time price information from nearby markets, speedy online payments etc
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AGMARKNET
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- It is a G2C e-governance portal that caters to the needs of various stakeholders such as farmers, industry, policy makers and academic institutions by providing agricultural marketing related information from a single window.
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Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs)
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- Efforts are being made to develop and upgrade existing 22,000 rural haats (Rural Primary Markets) into GrAMs. It will be linked to e-NAM and will remain outside the APMC Act regulation.
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Scheme for Formation and Promotion of Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs)
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- The scheme aims to create 10,000 FPOs in five years period from 2019-20 to 2023-24 and also provide handholding support to each FPO
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Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF)
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- The Government is implementing this Central Sector Scheme of Rs. 1,00,000 Crore to provide a medium-long term loan facility for investment in viable projects for post-harvest market infrastructure including warehousing facility and community farming assets through interest subvention and financial support.
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Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI)
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- The Government is implementing AMI, a sub-scheme of Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) under which assistance is provided for construction of godowns/warehouses in the rural areas in the States to enhance the storage capacity for agriculture produce.
- Under the scheme, the Government provides subsidies at the rate of 25% and 33.33% on capital cost of the project based on the category of eligible beneficiary.
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