39% APMCs in Maharashtra join e-NAM

Of the 306 Agricultural Generate Current market Committees (APMCs) in the State, 118 have related with e-NAM, a pan-India electronic investing portal which is a unit to connect current physical APMC mandis that can be accessed on the net.

When on the net gate entry and e-auction have been started in all APMCs, e-payment is useful in only 67 APMCs. The point out has 623 subyards unfold across the districts.

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Previous 12 months till November 2020, thirteen lakh MT of grains worthy of ₹3,850 crore ended up e-auctioned and ₹98.fifty six crore in e-payment done. Each and every 12 months more than two hundred lakh MT agri produce worthy of concerning ₹45,000 crore and ₹56,000 crore arrives in APMC mandis.

“e-NAM has not reached a the greater part of farmers. Physical trade proceeds to dominate in comparison to the trade that is taking place in APMCs. Compact and marginal farmers continue to depend on APMCs. Deliberate endeavours should be built to introduce farmers to e-NAM,” claimed farmer Baba Pawar, introducing APMCs have designed an ecosystem and farmers are utilized to the functions of APMCs.

Maharashtra Farmers Producer Firm (MahaFPC), a consortium of about 400 FPCs in the State, is performing with farmers to persuade them to decide for an alternate promoting program. In accordance to MahaFPC officials, farmers are slowly but surely but steadily tapping possibilities.

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“Established APMCs deliver the infrastructure for the sale of agricultural produce so that farmers get sufficient rate for their agricultural produce and are shielded from exploitation by traders and middlemen by supplying reduced prices,” the State Economic Survey 2020-21 released on Friday claimed.

The Central federal government is insisting that farmers and traders ought to sign up for e-NAM as it encourages uniformity in agriculture promoting by streamlining procedures across built-in markets, taking away info asymmetry concerning buyers and sellers and marketing genuine-time rate discovery based mostly on genuine need and offer. The Centre desires to combine APMCs across the country by means of a frequent on the net current market system to aid pan-India trade in agriculture commodities.