The Ministry of Agriculture has given permission to the trade of 10 additional commodities (goods) on the Electronic-National Agricultural Market (E-NAM) on Thursday. After these new commodities are added, now the total number of trading goods on this platform has increased to 231. According to PTI news, the ministry said in a statement that the newly included items, dried basil leaves, gram flour, wheat flour, gram sattu (roasted chana flour), water chestnut, asafoetida, drought There are fenugreek leaves, baby corn, dragon fruit and water chestnut.
Decision taken after comprehensive consultation
According to the news, this decision has been taken by the Ministry after comprehensive consultation with stakeholders including state agencies, traders, subject experts and small farming agrarian business association (SFAC). Many of these items, especially chana sattu, water chestnut flour, asafoetida and dried fenugreek leaves, are in secondary business category, which help farmer productive organizations (FPOs) to marketing price -added products and help in making business in the field. Can
Launched in the year 2016, e-NAM
The Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) has prepared trading criteria for these additional goods, so that farmers can help in getting better prices by ensuring quality standards. Launched in 2016, E-NAM is an All India Electronic Trading Portal that connects the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis to form an integrated national market for agricultural goods.
The ministry said that the purpose of this expansion is to provide more opportunities to increase the coverage of agricultural goods and to benefit from farmers and traders to benefit from digital trading platforms, as well as increase transparency and fair trade practices. This step has been taken in response to the continuous demand from farmers, traders and other stakeholders to include more agricultural commodities.
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