RAS question
e-NAM stands for:
Correct answer: (A) Electronic National Agricultural Market.
e-NAM stands for Electronic National Agriculture Market, a pan-India electronic trading portal for agricultural commodities.
Explanation
e-NAM is the Electronic National Agriculture Market, an online trading platform for agricultural commodities launched on 14 April 2016. The official e-NAM portal describes it as a pan-India electronic trading portal that networks existing APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. That is why the key word in the abbreviation is not mission, model, or animal market: it is a market architecture for farm produce. By linking mandis through a common online platform, e-NAM aims to support pan-India trade, transparent auction-based price discovery, and timely online payment, helping farmers seek better prices.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Enhanced National Agricultural Mission is wrong because e-NAM is described as an electronic trading portal and market, not as a mission.
- (C) Electronic New Agricultural Model is wrong because NAM expands to National Agriculture Market, and the scheme is about a unified market platform rather than a new model.
- (D) Electronic National Animal Market is wrong because the official portal links e-NAM to agricultural commodities and APMC mandis, not animal trade.
Concept
This tests agricultural marketing reform, especially how digital market platforms integrate APMC mandis. It recurs in RAS because e-NAM links economy, agriculture, governance, and farmer price-realisation questions.