AMN / Bhubaneswar
The Centre Friday announced that 22,000 rural markets would be linked to the Electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) by 2020 as part of its drive to double the income of farmers.
Addressing the “AgriVikas 2018” HERE , Union Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said these 22,000 rural markets or haats will be upgraded to Gramin Agricultural Markets and linked with the e-NAM to enable farmers sale directly to potential buyers.
The e-NAM is a pan-India electronic trading portal, a network of the existing Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.
The portal provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services.