Making it feasible and 'farmer-friendly', e-NAM app upgraded with six new features

New Delhi, February 21: After elaborating the roadmap to enhance farmer’s income and productivity, the Department of agriculture initiating six new features in e-NAM app which is completely dedicated for farmers. These features would help the farmers get an overall idea of the bidding and trading taking place and also to make it more user-friendly. It will enable the farmers to have a feasible transaction and making it available in regional languages is an added advantage.

These features in the app includes the MIS dashboard for better analysis, BHIM payment facility by traders, mobile payment facility by traders, enhance the features on mobile app such as gate entry and payment through mobile, integration of farmers’s database and eLearning module in the e-NAM website. The new features on the app was launched by Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh.

The mobile app is being enhanced in multi-dimension so that the entire operation for farmers and traders can be user friendly. The Mobile app has been made multilingual. The mandi operators can carry out one of the critical operation of gate entry directly from e-NAM mobile app. This will also facilitate the farmers to do advance gate entry on mobile app which in turn will reduce a lot of time for farmers coming in the mandi and will bring huge efficiency and facility.

Further a new feature has been introduced for farmers where they can see the progress of their lot being traded and also real time bidding progress of price will be visible to farmers on mobile app. The online payment facility by traders is also made available so that the transactions can be done online and an SMS alert will be given to the farmers after crediting the payment.

Further, a new website has been developed with improved and more informative features like live status of markets of e-NAM based on gate entry, latest information on events, dynamic training calendar etc. Also e-Learning module in hindi language has been designed and incorporated in the website so that various stake holders can learn online about how to operate the system and continuously get trained on the system at their convenience.

MIS Dashboard based on business intelligence will provide a greater insight into the performance of each mandi in terms of arrival and trade. This will help the mandi board officials to compare the performance of each mandi on daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly and year-on-year basis. This will also enable officials and mandi secretary in doing actual trade analysis from commodity level to state level operation.

Keeping in view the need of making marketing of commodities easier for farmers, e-NAM was envisioned and launched in 21 Mandis on 14th April 2016. e-NAM website is now available in eight different languages (Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Odia) while the live trading facility is available in six different language (Hindi, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi & Telugu).