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Union Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister Launched e-NAM Mobile App

Agriculture is the backbone of India. Most of the citizens of India are from rural and village community which is still now relying only upon agriculture. Being one of the country with rich agricultural resources, there are many agriculturalists taking some of the wrong decision and ending up their life. This is one of the biggest problems for the ruling parties in India as they were concerned about the lives of those people who are relying on the agriculture for their survival.

Introduction of NAM:

To safeguard the lives of poor agriculturalists and to make sure that they are having a better life standard and income, government of India has recently introduced one of the most revolutionary scheme, which is National Agriculture Market (NAM). The idea behind forming such groups is to make sure that agriculturalists can now make their own decision on what price they must be selling rather than just listening to the words of money minded commission agents and wholesale stocking agents.

The idea behind this National Agriculture Market (NAM) is to make sure that all people involved in agriculture must know about the price for the product which they are selling in rest of the India and how well it is being trending in both price and quantity. If agriculturalists are very well informed about these details, they can now make their pricing decision in an opt manner and make sure that they are deciding their own selling price rather than going with the decision that is made by a third party.

Introduction of app:

To take NAM to the next level, government of India has now introduced another revolutionary thing in this field, which is nothing but e-NAM. The entire website of NAM is now available in the form a little app which can reside easily in most of the android model mobile phones. With the help of e-NAM, it is now very easy to check for useful information about agricultural products and it’s pricing without any necessity to go to a computer center or any other places.

The advantage of making use of the app against the regular website is as follows:

• As android phones became more prevalent in India, it is now very easy for various farmers and agriculturalists across India to make efficient use of various services offered by NAM
• The app is designed in a smart manner such that there is no need to browse much through the app to get the required information
• App can now synchronize very easily to internet and display all latest information without any problem as it can now work efficiently even in low speed internet connections
• The app is available free for all people in India, all people have to do is that they must download the app either from play store or directly from the website and install it in their phones
• To ensure that even less educated people can also make use of the app, menu in the app and the features are made in dark characters

At the current point of time, the project has not reached many people in India. There are also attempts made by government to take it across people in agricultural background and make the scheme of e-NAM to be a great success in the field of agriculture and farmer welfare.

Ministry has recently told that there are many attractive changes now made in the aspects of e-NAM which will also now reflect in the app too. If this is the case, then it will be a boon for all farmers and agriculturalists in India as there will be flat pricing across the country and also it will benefit farmers from poor background as they cannot be fooled anymore by the commission agents. Farmers can now get all updated information with the help of e-NAM app which helps them to decide about the pricing with real time data.

At the Launch Event

Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh recently launched the e-NAM App in New Delhi along with the state minister Shri Parshoottam Rupala. On the launch occasion, the respected union minister announced that 250 markets across 10 states of the nation get connected with the e-NAM mobile App. Also he insists that in nearby future the app will be integrated with around 350+ mandis from 14 different states.

On quoting the success of e-NAM platform, the minister conveyed about Rs.421 crore was transacted under the platform and over 160K farmers, around 47k traders along with 25,970 commission agents are registered on the e-NAM platform and those numbers are expected to increase further. On considering the target set in the first phase of e-NAM platform of reaching 585 markets by 2018^th March, the platform is about to attain 400 markets within the end of March 2017.

As we live in the digital world, the launch of the e-NAM mobile application would enable farmers to get access with the National Market with wide options to gain more profits.

Update 23 Feb 2018

e-NAM mobile app gets updated with new features

The e-NAM (National Agriculture Market) app has been updated and launched with much better and improved new features. According to the updates, new features have been updated to the mobile app making it more user friendly.

• The developers have ensured that the new MIS dashboard is more interactive for both traders and farmers alike. Apart form this the users will be able to make use of additional benefits including BHIM payment, better payment options, accessing database and e-Learning modules.
• The developers have made the mobile app multi-lingual such that traders and farmers can now use the feature of Gate entry directly on the mobile app well in advance, thus saving their time.
• Apart from this the farmers will be able to track the process of their lot submitted at the Mandi on their mobile phones in real time along with bidding process.
• Traders will be able to view assaying certificates on their mobile devices and at the same time they can also make the payments online via net banking and debit card. At the same time farmers will be able to receive sms alerts from the bank notifying the payments received.
• As a mode to make online payment the farmers will also be able to make payments via BHIM payment using the UPI (United Payment Interface). With this new feature it is expected the farmers will be able to receive the payments instantly in their accounts from traders to the authorities and then in their bank accounts.
• The new mobile app will also offer with Live status features for the current market trend. Apart from this farmers and traders will be able to collect information related to events, training sessions etc. the app is also equipped with e-learning module which is available in Hindi. Using this feature users will be able to collect tutorials related to using the system for their benefit along with training.
• Using MIS dashboard, users will be able to collect information related to market performance such that APMC secretary and Mandi Board officials will be able to make comparison as per requirements. They can performance trade analysis and coordinate.
• Apart from this the Mandi Secretary will also be able to resolve and raise any issue related to technology, operation, system and software. This will enable them to check with the status online and resolve it.
• The app has also been connected to the database of farmers for simplified registration and data retrieving facilities. The process can be performed by the farmers on arrival at the gate thus saving their time. The process will prove helpful for farmers in reducing the waiting time at the gate.

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