Status of shareholders and trade under e-NAM in Punjab

National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing physical APMCs and other market yards to create a unified virtual online market for the agricultural commodities. It is an innovative initiative in agricultural marketing to enhance farmers’ digital accessibility to multiple number of markets and buyers so that they can get real time price discovery, transparent procedures and better price for their qualitative produce in the market. Though total 37 APMC markets are linked with e-NAM but online trading is being done only in very first 19 e-NAM markets in Punjab. The study based on secondary data highlights the stakeholders’ and trade status in e-NAM markets in Punjab. The study revealed that majority of the stakeholders were from zone-III followed by zone-II and zone-I. Basmati was on the top with highest quantity (68.47 lakh quintals) traded under e-NAM followed by cotton (33.82 lakh quintals) and potato (22.84 lakh quintals). Similarly, in case of value of the traded quantity of commodities through e-NAM, basmati was traded with highest value i.e. worth of Rs. 1886 crore. The second highest traded commodity value wise was cotton (Rs 1782.1 crore) wheras, moong whole worth Rs. 8.6 crore was traded through e-NAM in the state of Punjab.