Late last week PM Narendra Modi said that he believes that with the help of the National Agriculture Market (e NAM) portal, the nation’s farmers will be able to decide the place, time and price of selling their products, as well as reduce the burden on the consumers.
“I firmly believe that now my farmers would decide where, when and at what price their produce will be sold. And it is my belief that there would be no burden on the consumer,” the Prime Minister said in a statement.
National Agriculture Market (e NAM) is a pan India electronic trading portal which networks the existing Agricultural Produce Market Committee(APMC) mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14, 2016, e NAM is completely funded by the Central Government and is implemented by Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC), under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.
Source: theprint.in