Adoption performance of electronic national agricultural markets (e-NAM) in Punjab

The Electronic National Agricultural Market (e-NAM) has been in practice for the last four years in the country which was launched on 14^th April 2016. The state of Punjab lagged in terms of adoption of this portal and started engaging farmers in 2018. In this paper, an attempt has been made to evaluate the-adoption performance of the state. It was found from the field survey that there was a difference in the-prices received by the adopters and non-adopters of e-NAM for all the crops covered under the study. The results of t-test showed that this difference in prices was statistically significant in the case of potato (Hoshiarpur) and basmati (Sangrur) whereas the difference in prices of cotton received by the adopters and non-adopter farmers of e-NAM was statistically insignificant. The results of binomial logit regression model revealed that the variable price was found to be negatively significant (p<0.05) with the values-of -0.014, -0.018 and odds ratios of 0.987 and 0.982 in the case of Hoshiarpur and Sangrur respectively-which signify that with one unit increase in the price, the odds of adopting e-NAM system will decrease-by 0.014 and-0.018 times in Hoshiarpur and Sangrur respectively and vice versa. The remaining factors-such as age, education, operational holding and distance covered from farm to market were found to be-non-significant.