AGRICULTURE MARKETING INFRASTRUCTURE WITH REFERENCE TO E-NAM AND RURAL HAATS/MANDI IN JHARKHAND

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2018
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Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand-6
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In India, there is a need to promote agriculture marketing infrastructure for reducing the involvement of intermediaries and minimizing the post-harvest losses. A robust agriculture marketing infrastructure will ensure better remuneration to farmers and supply of better quality products to consumers and processing industries to sell their produce at profitable price. E-NAM is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities. The market facilitates farmers, traders and buyers with online trading. Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) is to be integrated with e-NAM to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. Hence for the study 10 districts were selected namely Ranchi, Koderma, Lohardaga, Simdega, Jamshedpur, Chatra, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh and Ramgarh. It was found that the only infrastructures available were administrative building, shops and godowns rest all were lacking behind. As on 27th April 2015, the APMC Act was abolished in Jharkhand therefore farmers and traders were not under the control of the APMC. Due to abolition of the act the market fee was eliminated, therefore, the basic sources of income for APMC were shops and godowns rent. Earlier the APMC used to receive 1% of charge in every transaction. Large number of farmers and traders were registered in e-NAM but only 2% of them were doing trade through e-NAM. The reason behind thiswas that the traders do not buy produce from farmers as farmers do not have quantitative and qualitative produce. Other reason were that the APMC do not provide basic infrastructure facilities to both traders and farmers and distance of APMC from the field were very far so farmers have to bear huge transportation cost and payments were delayed. APMC Ranchi was charging maximum charge of shops and godowns rent i.e. ` 8 per sq.ft. and APMC Jamshedpur was having highest annual income of ` 3,01,51,265. In India, there are 13 crore farmers out of which 1.11crore are registered in e-NAM so the percentage of farmers selling through offline mode is 91.46% and e-NAM is 8.53 %.In term of quantity e-NAM has contributed 0.02 % while offline contributed 99.98% while in terms of monetary contribution of e-NAM were 0.08% while offline contributes 99.92%. E-NAM is used very rarely. Farmers preferred to sell their produce in local haats. So there is urgent need to construct the basic infrastructure in the APMC and manpower to be hired to increase the online trade.
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AGRICULTURE MARKETING INFRASTRUCTURE WITH REFERENCE TO E-NAM AND RURAL HAATS/MANDI IN JHARKHAND
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