39% APMCs in Maharashtra join e-NAM

Of the 306 Agricultural Produce Current market Committees (APMCs) in the Condition, 118 have linked with e-NAM, a pan-India digital investing portal which is a unit to connect present bodily APMC mandis that can be accessed on the web.

Even though on the web gate entry and e-auction have been began in all APMCs, e-payment is purposeful in only 67 APMCs. The state has 623 subyards unfold across the districts.

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Last yr till November 2020, thirteen lakh MT of grains worth ₹3,850 crore have been e-auctioned and ₹98.56 crore in e-payment finished. Every single yr over two hundred lakh MT agri generate worth concerning ₹45,000 crore and ₹56,000 crore comes in APMC mandis.

“e-NAM has not achieved a vast majority of farmers. Actual physical trade continues to dominate in contrast to the trade that is going on in APMCs. Small and marginal farmers go on to count on APMCs. Deliberate endeavours will have to be manufactured to introduce farmers to e-NAM,” claimed farmer Baba Pawar, introducing APMCs have produced an ecosystem and farmers are made use of to the functions of APMCs.

Maharashtra Farmers Producer Organization (MahaFPC), a consortium of about 400 FPCs in the Condition, is functioning with farmers to encourage them to decide for an substitute advertising and marketing technique. In accordance to MahaFPC officials, farmers are bit by bit but steadily tapping solutions.

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“Established APMCs give the infrastructure for the sale of agricultural generate so that farmers get sufficient cost for their agricultural generate and are guarded from exploitation by traders and middlemen by featuring small prices,” the Condition Economic Survey 2020-21 produced on Friday claimed.

The Central authorities is insisting that farmers and traders should really be part of e-NAM as it promotes uniformity in agriculture advertising and marketing by streamlining procedures across built-in marketplaces, taking away details asymmetry concerning buyers and sellers and selling actual-time cost discovery dependent on genuine demand and supply. The Centre desires to integrate APMCs across the region through a typical on the web marketplace system to facilitate pan-India trade in agriculture commodities.