National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)

e-NAM (National Agriculture Market) is a pan-India electronic trading portal that networks existing APMC mandis into one unified national market for agricultural commodities. It was launched on 14 April 2016 and is implemented by the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

No. e-NAM does not pay farmers any money directly — it is a trading platform. What it offers is market access: transparent electronic auctions, more buyers per lot, quality-linked pricing and direct online payment for produce you sell.

1,656 mandis across 23 States and 4 Union Territories are integrated with e-NAM, as officially published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare for end-February 2026. More mandis are added periodically after they meet the scheme’s integration criteria.

247 commodities have notified tradable quality parameters on e-NAM, following the addition of 9 new commodities in October 2025. The list — spanning foodgrains, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables and spices — is published on enam.gov.in and is periodically expanded.

Register free of cost at your nearest e-NAM integrated mandi (in person, on the portal, or via the app). Bring your produce to the mandi, where it is weighed and quality-assayed. It is then listed on the e-NAM platform for electronic bidding by registered traders anywhere on the network. Once the auction closes, the winning bid is confirmed and payment is settled directly into your bank account.

Registration on e-NAM is free for farmers. States levy the usual mandi/market fee on trades as per their APMC Act — e-NAM does not add a separate platform fee on top of that.

Aadhaar or another government ID, a savings or current bank account (passbook or cancelled cheque), a mobile number, and a passport-size photograph. Provident Fund (PPF) accounts are not accepted for settlement — only savings or current accounts.

Yes, assaying is not compulsory to trade, but skipping it usually means bidders price your lot more cautiously since they cannot see a certified quality grade. Assaying is what lets you capture a price that reflects your produce’s actual quality.

It lets a registered Farmer Producer Organisation list and sell its members’ produce for e-auction directly from its own collection centre, without first transporting it to the physical mandi — cutting transport cost and giving the FPO stronger bargaining power. It was launched on 2 April 2020.

Produce stored in a WDRA (Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority) registered warehouse declared a deemed market can be traded on e-NAM against an electronic Negotiable Warehouse Receipt (e-NWR), without physically moving it to a mandi. It was launched alongside the FPO module on 2 April 2020.

Payment is settled online, directly into the seller’s registered bank account, using RTGS, NEFT or BHIM UPI — there is no cash handling required at the mandi.

As officially published for end-February 2026: 1.80 crore farmers and 2.72 lakh traders are registered, and 4,724 FPOs are onboarded. Since inception, the platform has recorded trade of about 13.22 crore metric tonnes worth roughly ₹4,82,350 crore.

Launched on 14 July 2022, PoP lets registered farmers access services from around 41 empanelled service providers — covering logistics, quality checks, warehousing, fintech and market information — through the e-NAM app, and sell produce beyond their own state’s borders.

You can still sell through the mandi’s normal offline process. Integration depends on your state’s APMC/Regulated Market Committee completing the reforms and infrastructure e-NAM requires — check enam.gov.in for the current mandi list, and ask your APMC or state agriculture marketing department about integration plans.

The toll-free helpdesk number is 1800-270-0224 (landline: 011-26862367), and you can email [email protected] or [email protected]. The office of the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium is at NCUI Auditorium Building, 5th Floor, August Kranti Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi.