National Agriculture Market MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

The Platform of Platforms links service-provider platforms for logistics, quality, warehousing, finance and related services, so 1-b. The Farmer Producer Organisation module enables trade from collection centres without first moving produce to a mandi, so 2-a. The electronic warehouse receipt supports sale from accredited warehouses and can be pledged for institutional credit, so 3-c.

All three statements are correct. Integration requires one trading licence valid throughout the State, a single-point market fee charged only at the first wholesale transaction, and a legal provision recognising e-auction or e-trading as a means of price discovery. Together they reduce regulatory fragmentation across mandis.

Statement C is incorrect because Rajasthan's distinction is being the first State to conduct inter-state trade with more than one State, not exactly one. It linked with Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The other statements agree with the reported position: first rank in e-trade volume and 173 integrated mandis.

e-NAM is a pan-India electronic trading portal that links existing wholesale mandis through one online layer. It widens buyer competition, supports transparent auctions and price discovery, and enables online settlement; it is neither a procurement guarantee nor a replacement for physical mandis.

The Centre provides assistance of up to ₹75 lakh per mandi for infrastructure needed for e-NAM integration. The ceiling was raised from the original ₹30 lakh. Eligible facilities include quality-assaying laboratories, electronic weighing, grading, packaging, computers and software infrastructure.