National
Agricultural Market (e-NAM)
Rabi Campaign 2017
New Delhi, 19
thSept 2017
15 markets of TN being on-boarded
No State Total
1 Andhra Pradesh 22
2 Chhattisgarh 14
3 Gujarat 40
4 Haryana 54
5 Himachal Pradesh 19
6 Jharkhand 19
7 Madhya Pradesh 58
8 Maharashtra 45
9 Odisha 10
10 Rajasthan 25
11 Telangana 44
12 Uttar Pradesh 100
13 Uttarakhand 5
Total 455
44 19 54
19 25
40
100
58 5
45
22
14
10
Tradable parameters for 90 commodities inc bamboo notified
Interoperability with Karnataka
Initiatives to Fast Track Progress
• Weekly VCs with States every Friday
• Interactions with DCs – HP, UK, HP, GJ, HR, OD done. AP and MP next week
• Workshop on assaying held on 13.9.17 with States and OEMs
• Nodal officers nominated for States and model mandis
• WhatsApp groups created with DCs, State Secretary and GOI officers
• RKVY funding to be linked to agri-market reforms and eNAM
• HP and UK notifying waiver of 50% user charges and 10% mandi fee respectively to incentivize online trading
• Rajasthan launches ‘Upahar’ for women traders and farmers
Need for:
• Real time online bidding
• Digital payments to farmers
• Functioning and integration of assaying lab with bidding
• Strengthening infrastructure including connectivity
• Issuance of unified license
• Mission mode training and awareness programs
• Inter mandi trade to graduate to Inter State trade
• Model mandis in each State
Establishment of a Unified Agricultural Market
Trading
1. Real time online bidding 2. Outcry
3. One to one trade
• Trade on eNAM ranges from 0 in JH and AP to 2% in OD, 4% in UK, 5% in MH, 7% in GJ, 9% in HP, 11% in RJ, 14% in HR to 37% in UP, 39% in MP, 63% in CG and 99% in TS
• Move from closed tender to open auction
• Arrival capture increased but large number of lots not entering the bidding system
• Procurement not reflective of the essence of eNAM
• Warehouse based sales
Assaying
• Strengthen and modernize labs for quick, reliable and replicable results
• Tradable parameters notified for 90 commodities
• Establish acceptance in assaying based bidding in intra mandi scenario
• Engage trained manpower in adequate number
• May need more than 1 lab depending on peak arrivals
• Training in niche commodities like cotton
• Accreditation
• Referral labs
Digital Payments
• Online payment gateway – miniscule
• Bank charges waived off at payment gateway of ICICI Bank - only home branch levying transaction charges
• Mission mode registration drive for farmers, traders, CA, processors
• Integration of weigh bridges / weigh scales for accurate sale agreements and corresponding digital payments
• Chhattisgarh bringing amendment to reduce payment time to 1 day
Inter Mandi and Inter State Trade
• Assaying is the corner stone
• Telengana: Choppadandi, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Badepally, Suryapet, Tirumalgiri, Jangaon
• Chhattisgarh: Bhatapara, Durg, Kurud, Dhamtari, Balod, Navapara, Rajnandgaon
• Madhya Pradesh: Sehore and Bhopal pilot
• UP: Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar pilot
• Inter State – a unified uni-coded license a pre-requisite
States not yet integrated to e- NAM
• 3 mandatory pre- requisite reforms in APMC Act - Issue of unified single license for the whole State - Single point of levy of market fee
- Provision for e-trading
• States with no APMC Act
- Identify an organization and frame legally enforceable guidelines
Agri-market Reforms – model APLM Act, 2017
• Released on 24th April 2017 by Hon’ble Agriculture Minister
• Punjab passed the amendments in June 2017 barring some provisions
• In addition to the 3 mandatory reforms for e-NAM inter alia:
- Abolish concept of notified area of APMC
- Private markets, direct marketing, farmer consumer market, adhoc markets, special commodity markets
- Capping of market fee and commission charges - Deregulation of fruits & vegetables
- Inter State trading (sec 72)
- Declaration of warehouses/godowns as market sub yards Progress reported from 15 States
