*Corresponding author: lavanya.tgt@gmail.com
Agricultural markets in India are characterized by poor competitiveness, presence of excessive middlemen, poor competition and multiplicity of market charges, reduced marketing efficiency and poor price discovery. In order to eliminate the deficiencies in the existing marketing structure, and to integrate markets over space the Government of India introduced a new scheme called e-National agricultural market (e-NAM), to bring transparency and improve efficiency in the agricultural marketing for the benefit of the farmers and other market participants. The present paper attempts to analyze the impact of e-NAM on arrivals and prices of commodities traded in Kesamudram market and also the factors influencing the prices of paddy in this market With the introduction of e-NAM , both the prices and arrivals have increased in paddy and maize, while in cotton and groundnut prices have increased but arrivals were decreased during post e-NAM period. The prices of paddy were found positively correlated with number of lots, number of bids per lot, lot size, and negatively correlated with assaying parameters namely moisture content, foreign matter, damaged grains. Among the various factors influencing the prices of paddy, number of bids per lot was found positive and significantly increasing the price of paddy in Kesamudram market.
