New Delhi: As many as 2177 FPOs have been on-boarded on the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) platform. The government had launched the FPO trading module during Covid-19 pandemic to enable FPOs to upload their produce from collection centres or farm gates with picture or quality parameters for online bidding without physically bringing their produce to the grain markets.

Under the e-NAM scheme, the Government of India is providing assistance up to Rs 75 lakh per grain market for related hardware, infrastructure including for quality assaying equipment and for creation of infrastructure like cleaning, grading, sorting, packaging and compost unit, etc.

An established quality assaying lab in e-NAM grain market is a requisite for Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) that assess and certify the quality of produce, which helps farmers in getting prices commensurate with quality of their produce. Further, provision has been made in the FPO trading module wherein FPOs can upload their produce from collection centres or farm gate with picture/ quality parameters.

According to Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar, Platform of Platforms module (PoP) has been launched to integrate the various platforms of service providers operational in Agri Value Chain with e-NAM. Under PoP, various service providers including Quality Assayers are empanelled for the benefit of stakeholders.

PoP will enable Farmers, FPOs, Traders and other stakeholders to access a range of services offered by multiple service providers, thereby increasing choice to the stakeholders. Further the e-NAM platform is made interoperable with Rashtriya e-Market Services Private Limited (ReMS) platform of the Government of Karnataka which will facilitate famers of either platform to sell their produce in other platforms thereby increasing their market access. /BI/