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2020

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

The National Agriculture Market portal, e-NAM completed how many years of implementation on 14 April 2020?

A	1 years
B	4 years
C	2 years
D	5 years

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -National Agriculture Market (e-NAM), a pan-India electronic trading portal has completed six years today. The flagship programme integrates physical wholesale mandis and markets of different States and Union Territories to facilitate online trading of agricultural commodities.

Detailed explanation-2: -National Agriculture Market (NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal launched on 14th April, 2016 completely funded by Central Government and implemented by Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC).

Detailed explanation-3: -Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is the lead agency for implementing eNAM under the aegis of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India.

Detailed explanation-4: -The agriculture sector has experienced buoyant growth in the past two years. The sector, which is the largest employer of workforce, accounted for a sizeable 18.8 per cent (2021- 22) in Gross Value Added (GVA) of the country registering a growth of 3.6 per cent in 2020-21 and 3.9 per cent in 2021-22.

Detailed explanation-5: -38 additional mandis were integrated with the eNAM platform today, thus achieving milestone of integration of 415 mandis as per the planned target.

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