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Interstate trade on e-NAM down 62% on year at INR 29 mln in Apr-Jun
This story was originally published at 08:52 IST on 14 July 2025
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MUMBAI - Interstate trade on the electronic National Agriculture Market, or e-NAM, declined over 62% on year to INR 29.2 million in the first quarter of 2025-26 (Apr-Mar), the Financial Express newspaper reported Monday, quoting unnamed sources. It indicates that the facility's stated objective of ensuring pan-India market access sans physical boundaries for farmers remains a pipedream, the report said.
In 2024-25 (Apr-Mar), interstate trade on the platform declined sharply by 50% to INR 210 million from INR 420 million in FY24, the report said.
Trade via e-NAM between mandis within states was up 4% on year at INR 4.45 billion in the first quarter of FY26, the report said. Only 675 agriculture produce markets committee, or APMC, mandis participated in the inter-mandi trade, the report said. The farmgate sales reported on e-NAM dropped 12% on year to a mere INR 113 million in the first quarter of FY26, the report said.
The interstate and inter-mandi trades on the digital platform, which was launched over eight years ago, remain very small compared to overall trade, indicating that most of the sales on e-NAM are reported from within the wholesale markets, the report quoted unnamed sources as saying. The e-NAM has already digitally integrated over 1,500 wholesale markets.
Since its launch in April 2016, the platform has reported sales of INR 4.39 trillion so far, out of which only INR 59.16 billion was on account of inter-mandi trade, the report said. End
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