National Agriculture Market was launched in April 2016

The National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) was launched in April 2016. It is an all-India electronic trading portal. It integrates agricultural markets into a unified digital marketplace, thereby ensuring seamless online trading, transparent pricing, and wider market access for farmers and traders. This marks a significant step towards realizing the vision of "One Nation, One Market" in agricultural marketing.

Key Achievements of e-NAM

¨     e-NAM has emerged as a major digital reform in agricultural marketing, strengthening market integration and improving transparency in trade across India.

¨     Its achievements reflect both scale expansion and deeper structural transformation of agricultural markets.

¨     A total of 1,656 mandis across 23 States and 4 Union Territories have been successfully integrated into the platform, indicating wide geographical coverage and increasing adoption of digital trading systems.

¨     The platform has built a strong stakeholder ecosystem with more than 80 crore farmers, 2.73 lakh traders, and 4,724 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) registered, showing large-scale participation of key actors in agricultural markets.

¨     In terms of trade performance, e-NAM has enabled cumulative transactions of around 25 crore metric tonnes of agricultural produce valued at approximately ₹4.84 lakh crore (2016–2026), reflecting its growing role in national agricultural commerce.

¨     The platform has also demonstrated strong growth momentum, with trade value rising significantly from ₹3.19 lakh crore in 2024 to ₹4.84 lakh crore in 2026, highlighting increasing trust and deeper market engagement among stakeholders.

¨     Operational activity remains robust, with over 204.76 lakh metric tonnes of produce traded in recent periods, indicating sustained usage and expanding digital participation in mandis.

¨     The e-NAM mobile application provides real-time price information for 247 agricultural commodities, enabling farmers to access market signals and improve price realisation.

¨     Additionally, the government has supported infrastructure development by providing financial assistance of up to ₹75 lakh per mandi, strengthening digital and physical integration of mandis into the e-NAM ecosystem.

Objectives  of e-NAM

¨     To create a unified national market for agricultural commodities through digital integration of mandis

¨     To ensure transparent price discovery through competitive online bidding

¨     To enhance market access for farmers, FPOs, and traders beyond local mandis

¨     To reduce intermediaries and transaction inefficiencies in agricultural trade

¨     To promote digital payments and financial inclusion in agricultural marketing

¨     To improve post-harvest value realization and reduce distress sales

Key Features e-NAM

¨     Single-window service: It connects APMC mandis across India and develops a single unified national market for agricultural commodities; Commodity arrivals, quality assaying, bidding, payment, all on one platform;

¨     Unique Lot ID tracking: Each lot tracked from gate entry to final sale via mobile

¨     Live price dashboard: Real-time commodity prices, mandi arrivals, trade volumes, publicly accessible.

¨  Inter-state trade facility: State Unified License enables traders to bid across State boundaries.

¨     The platform integrates multiple digital payment modes, including NEFT, RTGS, internet banking, and UPI, enabling it to adapt across states.

¨     Unique lot ID tracking system ensuring transparency from arrival to sale

¨   Multilingual mobile application enabling wider accessibility for farmers (12-language interface: Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Odia and others).

¨     A key advancement in the evolution of e-NAM was the introduction of the Platform of Platforms (PoP) on 14 July 2022, which integrates a wide range of services through a unified digital interface on the e-NAM mobile application.

¨     It enables farmers and stakeholders to access services across the agricultural value chain, including logistics, warehousing, quality assurance, grading and packaging, agri-inputs, financial and insurance services, along with advisory support such as weather updates and crop forecasting.

¨     The Electronic Negotiable Warehouse Receipt (e-NWR) system has been integrated with e-NAM to enable a more seamless and efficient agricultural.