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Authorized dealer codes
The 2015 proposal
Authorised dealers with dealer codes, e-scales and cashless online transactions, empowered to issue warehouse cash receipts.
Where it stands in 2026
The e-NAM unified trader licence answers this — 2.72 lakh traders registered — though parallel unlicensed trade persists outside mandis.
The open gap
Unlicensed trade outside mandis still persists.
How to sustain & deepen it
Pull parallel trade into the record by making the e-NAM trader licence the cheapest way to transact — one-tap onboarding, instant payment, licence-linked tax credits — rather than trying to police it.
Sources
- ↗ e-NAM (National Agriculture Market) — Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare
- ↓ Digitising payments in agricultural value chains: the revenue opportunity to 2025 — GSMA Mobile for Development, 2020
- ↗ Case studies on efforts to digitalize payments in agri-food value chains — CGIAR / IFPRI, 2025
- ↓ Agricultural Reforms in India — Indian Public Policy Review, 2020
- ↓ The State/UT Agricultural Produce & Livestock Marketing (Promotion & Facilitation) Act, 2017 (Model Act) — Directorate of Marketing & Inspection, Government of India, 2017