e-NAM (National Agriculture Market): How It Works and Key Facts

Last updated: 2026-11-13 · MockMentor

The National Agriculture Market, or e-NAM, is an online trading platform that links agricultural markets (mandis) across India. Launched in 2016, it lets farmers sell through online bidding with transparent prices and online payment. The nodal agency is the Small Farmers' Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC).

In one line: "One Nation, One Market", a single digital marketplace that connects mandis so farmers can find buyers and prices beyond their local market.

At a glance

Item Details
Launched 2016
Nodal agency Small Farmers' Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC)
Grant per mandi Up to ₹75 lakh (₹30 lakh hardware and assaying, ₹40 lakh grading and packaging, ₹5 lakh bio-composting)
Software Free of cost to States and UTs
Languages 12

Objectives

  • Remove the information gap between buyers and sellers
  • Allow real-time price discovery from actual demand and supply
  • Link Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis for trade across India
  • Bring farmers into formal digital payments

Key features

  • Inter-state trade on one platform
  • Warehouse-based trading using electronic Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (e-NWR): farmers store produce in accredited warehouses and sell without going to the mandi, and can borrow against the receipt
  • FPO trading module: Farmer Producer Organisations sell from their own collection centres
  • Platform of Platforms (PoP), from 14 July 2022, adds logistics, warehousing, grading, inputs, finance and weather services
  • A mobile app with Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments and a mandi locator

Facts to remember

  • SFAC runs e-NAM and provides free mandi analysts for support.
  • e-NWRs make stored produce usable as collateral for loans.

Possible exam questions

  1. What has held back the full benefit of e-NAM for farmers? Suggest reforms.
  2. How can warehouse receipts reduce distress sales by small farmers?

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