Addressing the 24th Management Board and 19th Annual General Board meetings of the SFAC, Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar said SFAC team has so far linked 1000 markets to e-NAM in two phases resulting into big gains.
“Business of more than Rs I lakh crore has been transacted over the e-NAM platform till now. More than 1.66 crore farmers and more than 1.30 lakh businesses have been registered with e-NAM since its inception”, Tomar underlined.
Shri Tomar said that it is a challenge for us to ensure that as a result of reforms, there is ease in selling of produce, along with transparency, farmers get remunerative prices for their produce and they have direct access to this platform.
Farmers have completed the harvesting work with great dedication even during the period of lockdown and earning is also now being completed successfully. SFAC must be congratulated for helping the farmers in this.
Tomar said that previously SFAC used to form FPOs on the basis of existing schemes, but it is a matter of happiness that the Prime Minister has announced the formation of 10 thousand FPOs across the country which will give a boost to this task.
FPOs must not only be formed but they must also achieve their objectives. Their responsibilities increase in ensuring that farmers gather in groups, hold discussions and get trained, increase their production, diversify their crops, and discuss ways of decreasing use of pesticides etc.