New laws on agriculture trade and contract farming in the worksMajor role for farmer producer organisations but without dislodging existing mandis; bill to be placed before the cabinet for approval soon.
Govt to bring central law to reduce farmers’ dependence on APMCFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while announcing the third trance of stimulus package, said that farmers should not be bound to sell a...
Wheat procurement to fall by 15% due to curbs on interstate crop movementThe lockdown has curbed movement of the cereal from neighbouring states to mandis in Haryana and Punjab.
Vegetable supplies in Delhi's Azadpur Mandi drop due to restricted inter state movementMeanwhile, the Delhi Government has deployed two medical teams in Azadpur mandi to screen farmers, labourers, drivers, traders and all the ...
200 more mandis added to eNAMTotal tally of eNAM enabled mandis rises to 785 with this addition. "By the end of the month, 1,000 mandis would be connected with the plat...
Govt exempts procurement agencies, mandis, farming operations, farm workers from lockdown rulesThe directive comes in the wake of farmers facing problems in harvesting their rabi crops and bringing them to the mandis in the wake of a ...
India Lockdown: About 1,600 fruit, vegetable mandis functioning; 300 more to operate from Friday, says Agri MinMandis have put in place a system to maintain social distancing and encouraging traders to wear face masks and hand sanitisers regularly to...
Inter-state trade of agri-items on e-NAM platform gains momentumIn April 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the pilot of electronic National Agriculture Market (eNAM) as part of the central gove...
It’s markets without borders as farmers get online mandiIt, however, took nearly three years to break the states' barrier - an ultimate objective of the e-platform which was launched to create a ...
Government to link 200 more mandis to eNAM this fiscal: Agriculture secretaryAt present, 585 regulated mandis in 14 states are linked with the electronic National Agriculture Market (eNAM) launched in April 2016.
Electronic trade among local mandis via e-NAM in the worksThe inter-mandi trade will facilitate more competition among trader and more choices to farmers, say agriculture ministry officials.
eNAM mandis in Uttar Pradesh to get better internet speed soonUttar Pradesh has set up 100 eNAM mandis in the country and are operational with 27.31 lakh registered farmers so far.
585 mandis to be integrated online by March next year: Agri minister Radha Mohan SinghThe e-NAM project launched in April 2016 was envisaged to improve the earnings of farmers, make available trade at a lower cost to buyers a...
Coming soon: Commodity hubs around townEfforts are also being made to set up infrastructure to create a direct link between farmers and consumers.
Report on roadmap to double farmers' income by Sept: GovernmentHighlighting measures taken to boost farm output and farmers income, more funds have been allocated under various schemes like PMKSY.
Agriculture Ministry in talks with Arun Jaitley on inter-state taxesThe government is working towards integrating 200 mandis by March-end, another 200 will be connected to the online platform in 2017 and the...
- Tunnelling work starts for Metro's Phase III
Delhi Metro today launched the process of boring tunnels for construction of a 3-km underground corridor aimed at decongesting Rajiv Chowk ...