Progress and performance of national agriculture market (e-NAM) in Punjab Singh Lovepreet1,*, Goyal Mini2, Bansal Ajay3 1University College of Agriculture, Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo-151302 (Punjab) 2Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004 (Punjab) 3Manager, e-NAM-Punjab, Strategic Partner to Government of India, Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited and Punjab Mandi Board, SAS Nagar-160065 (Punjab) *Corresponding author's email: lovepreet.singh@gku.ac.in
Online published on 3 February, 2023. Abstract National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal introduced by the Government of India to facilitate farmers to earn high income. Therefore, the present study was conducted in Punjab by randomly selecting one market from each zone. Out of 154APMCs in Punjab, 37 markets were linked with the e-NAM portal.About 2.16 lakh farmers, 2288 traders and 8376 commission agents residing in Punjab were enrolled with e-NAM. The performance of the Amritsar market was best determined by the participation of stakeholders and market arrival. So far, 133.34 lakh q of commodities worth  3952.43 crores were traded in the e-NAM markets. The total sold quantity in 2018-19 was 38.35 lakh q and increased by 147.57 per cent in 2019-20 to 94.95 lakh q, which is a good indicator of the growth of the e-NAM market in Punjab. It would certainly help in strengthening the existing system of agriculture marketing. Top Keywords Agricultural marketing, APMC, Electronic marketing. Top |