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The Centre is planning to prohibit physical trading in any of the 455 mandis in 13 states which have shifted to the electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NaM) from September 30.
Officials said the direction to the states is expected to be issued soon to totally stop any physical trading in mandis where e-NaM has been established.
The matter is expected to be discussed further at a meeting of state ministers with their counterparts in the Central government on smoothing agriculture markets this week.
Meanwhile, the Centre has fixed an ambitious target of producing 274.55
