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e-NAM, a boon for farmers
One of Telangana governments major farmerfriendly initiatives was setting up eNam, a panIndia electronic platform created after making an amendment to the Telangana Markets Act on April 13, 2016 The facility is available in 47 Agriculture Market Committees in the State As such, eNAM seeks to network the existing AMCs and other market yards as a part of Unified National Market for agricultur
Hyderabad: One of Telangana government’s major farmer-friendly initiatives was setting up e-Nam, a pan-India electronic platform created after making an amendment to the Telangana Markets Act on April 13, 2016. The facility is available in 47 Agriculture Market Committees in the State. As such, e-NAM seeks to network the existing AMCs and other market yards as a part of Unified National Market for agricultural commodities.
According to Marketing department officials, e-NAM is a “virtual” market, but it has a physical market at the back end. As on August 13, 26.99 LMTs of quantity with an amount of Rs 8,410 crores is traded on e-NAM portal. The AMC, Nizamabad has been awarded with the Prime Minister’s Excellency Award on Civil Services Day on April 21, 2017 at New Delhi for getting first position among all AMCs in the country for implementation of e-NAM. For the first time in the country, the Telangana government has implemented reservations for STs - 6%, SCs- 15%, BCs - 29% and for Women- 33% for the post of Chairperson in AMCs in the State.
In AMCs, where the provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 applies in the agency areas, all the members, including Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen would be from ST community.
One senior official of the department said that the department has set up exclusive market yards for sweet lime, lime and Ivy Gourd. One such special commodity market was set up at Gandhamvarigudemn in Nalgonda for the benefit of sweet lime farmers with an expenditure of Rs 1.5 crore.
At Nakrekal, the department has opened a lime market with an expenditure of Rs 3.07 crore. In Konamekalavarigudem in PA Pally mandal in the same district, a market was opened for the benefit of Ivy Gourd farmers at a cost of Rs 60.3 lakh, he said.
