National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The Govt. of India has created an online trading display place named National Agricultural Market or e-NAM for marketing agricultural commodities. e-NAM accommodates farmers with smooth marketing procedures for their products at a better price than the regular Agricultural Produce Market Committee's (APMC's). Recently new 25 commodities are added to the NAM on 29-08-2020 for trading. Now a total of 175 commodities are available for trade (www.enam.gov.in). This paper make an attempt to analysis of the market profile, status of e-NAM implementation in Mansa APMC of India's Punjab state, and prices of major agricultural commodities prior to and after e-NAM implementation was done. In terms of variation in different commodities prices specially in cotton prices, which was the primary commodity traded in the APMC, before e-NAM was executed in few selected APMC, it was observed that the coefficient of variation was high (11.54%) as compared to the after unification of APMC with e-NAM (10.94%). Increases in cotton post-unification prices are due to more farmers' and traders' participation in the e-NAM system. Though, there is huge possibility for higher price discovery in the e-NAM system if further traders are encouraged to take part and invite aggressive bidding. It may be done by creating awareness and organized training programs for traders and farmers.
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