Abstract
The Indian Government has boldly announced its intent of doubling the income levels of farmers in next five years while presenting the last Union Budget 2016–17. The Government then promptly launched an electronic National Agriculture Market (eNAM) during April, 2016 to create more options for farmers for getting better returns for their agricultural produce. Several years before launching of eNAM , the central Department of Agriculture Co-operation and Farmers Welfare took an initiative to network various agricultural produce wholesale markets under Agricultural Marketing Information Network (AGMARKNET ) project. So far, the AGMARKNET project has remarkably networked about 3000 markets in India and daily market information is being disseminated in several geographically spread markets for the use of farmers and other stakeholders . In this chapter, the eNAM and AGMARKNET projects are analyzed from the perspective of their integration for the purpose of creating better value for both buyers and sellers. Situation, actors, and process-related gaps in AGMARKNET are identified for taking corrective measures for its improvement and integration with eNAM . Based on learning issues, a few strategic recommendations are brought out for eNAM system to eventually deliver as per its mandate.
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Suri, P.K. (2018). Towards an Effective Agricultural e-Trading System in India. In: Connell, J., Agarwal, R., Sushil, Dhir, S. (eds) Global Value Chains, Flexibility and Sustainability. Flexible Systems Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8929-9_13
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