eNAM app allows farmers track their produce at markets

Now farmers can track the movement of their farm produce at wholesale markets and receive payments from traders using their smartphones.

Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Wednesday announced new features to the e-National Agriculture Market (eNAM) mobile application that allowed farmers to monitor the progress of their farm produce from the time it enters the market gates, the bids placed on it and the actual sale.

"Now, online payment by trader (buyer) can also be done from e-NAM Mobile App through debit card and net banking," Singh said here.

Besides RTGS and NEFT payment, the eNAM App also facilitates transactions using BHIM-UPI interface for ensuring faster payment to farmers.

As part of its ambitious agri-marketing reforms, the government aims to link 585 big wholesale markets across the country in their endeavour to create a National Agriculture Market.

Launched in April 2016, the eNAM project has linked 479 markets across 14 states and one union territory.

In a bid to boost market access for farmers, the government has also drawn up plans to link 22,000 rural markets with eNAM.

The rural haats, called Gramin Agriculture Market (GrAM) will be exempted from the regulations of the agriculture produce marketing committees. The GrAMs will be developed in such a manner that farmers will have a market to sell his produce within 5 to 15 km range of the farm.