Implementation of National Agriculture Market Project
The
National Agriculture Market (NAM) e-platform has been envisaged to
bring in operational efficiency and transparency in the mandi operations
and to enhance market access for the farmers and eliminate information
asymmetry. In order to provide guidance to the States/ Union Territories
(UTs) for integration of their regulated wholesale markets with the NAM
e-platform, the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers
Welfare has had workshops from time to time for the States/UTs, one of
which was the visit of State Ministers and officials to Hubli, Karnataka
on 9th July, 2015 to witness first hand the functioning of e-marketing
platform. The Department has also circulated a detailed template to
enable States/UTs to prepare their Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) to
submit their proposals thereon to the Government. Further to facilitate
integration, the implementing agency i.e. Small Farmers Agribusiness
Consortium (SFAC) will engage a Strategic Partner (SP) which shall,
inter-alia, train all participants (farmers, commission agents, traders,
employees of the Market, data entry operators, etc.) in the market
where the NAM is adopted, so that every participant is able to operate
the NAM for its business requirement. Further, the SP will also provide
one year local support to each participating mandi and set up a help
desk to support day to day operations and to answer queries in the State
language.
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