Covid-19: Centre asks states to notify warehouses as market yards

Move will help farmers sell goods on e-Nam without bringing their produce to the mandis; major relaxations given to FPOs and facilitating transport

A move to enable farmers to sell directly on the e-Nam (electronic national agriculture mandi) platform is expected to pick up soon, with the Union Government asking states to fulfil certain conditions they agreed upon at the time of allocating subsidy money for joining the platform.

Several other initiatives are also being worked out to help the cultivator sell his produce during the lockdown. One such is allowing farmers to deliver their crops to the collection centres of their organisations, and from there sell on e-Nam. Another is the linking of a network of transport service providers to the e-Nam platform.

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