<p class="title">The government is planning to link all the 7,500 agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) along with the weekly and bi-weekly temporary markets (haats) across the country with e-NAM-the centralised online commodities trading platform -- by FY22, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Wednesday said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently, only 585 APMCs are linked with e-NAM, he said but was quick to add that more than 400 more will be linked to this portal by 2020, taking the total to 1,000 APMCs which are online.</p>.<p class="bodytext">That apart, there are around 14,500 temporary mandis dealing in agri and non-agri goods across the country, which the farm ministry wants to interlink with the National Agriculture e-Market (e-NAM), he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Already 585 mandis are linked to e-NAM and we are planning to link 22,000 mandis by FY22," he told an event organized by Crop Care Federation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This will be another step forward, in contributing to realise the goal of doubling farmers' income by 2022 as declared by the prime minister," Singh said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister said the government is implementing several programmes to develop the farm sector and improve the economic condition of farmers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Issues such as reducing the cost of production, ensuring remunerative price for farmers, stopping wastage and ensuring alternative sources of income are being addressed in a mission mode," he said and called for a more concerted approach wherein the government, industry and farmers work together to overcome these challenges.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The government has been working with the industry to help farmers confront the challenges facing them, however, there is a need to expedite support for them," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh said, the budgetary outlay of the agriculture ministry has been gone up Rs 2,11,694 crore between 2014 and 2019.</p>
<p class="title">The government is planning to link all the 7,500 agricultural produce market committees (APMCs) along with the weekly and bi-weekly temporary markets (haats) across the country with e-NAM-the centralised online commodities trading platform -- by FY22, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Wednesday said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently, only 585 APMCs are linked with e-NAM, he said but was quick to add that more than 400 more will be linked to this portal by 2020, taking the total to 1,000 APMCs which are online.</p>.<p class="bodytext">That apart, there are around 14,500 temporary mandis dealing in agri and non-agri goods across the country, which the farm ministry wants to interlink with the National Agriculture e-Market (e-NAM), he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Already 585 mandis are linked to e-NAM and we are planning to link 22,000 mandis by FY22," he told an event organized by Crop Care Federation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This will be another step forward, in contributing to realise the goal of doubling farmers' income by 2022 as declared by the prime minister," Singh said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister said the government is implementing several programmes to develop the farm sector and improve the economic condition of farmers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Issues such as reducing the cost of production, ensuring remunerative price for farmers, stopping wastage and ensuring alternative sources of income are being addressed in a mission mode," he said and called for a more concerted approach wherein the government, industry and farmers work together to overcome these challenges.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The government has been working with the industry to help farmers confront the challenges facing them, however, there is a need to expedite support for them," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh said, the budgetary outlay of the agriculture ministry has been gone up Rs 2,11,694 crore between 2014 and 2019.</p>