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11/07/23 07:52 AM IST

Grain-Ex system

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  • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Additional Secretary Shri Bhuvnesh Kumar has inaugurated Product Design Centre (PDC), set up at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata.
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  • The centre has prototyping and system designing facilities equipped with all the software and printing technologies for system designing, prototyping, ideation and fabrication.
  • This facility will be beneficial to startups, enterpreneurs and MSME’s of the eastern region of the country.
  • An appearance based detection system i.e., Grain-Ex through machine vision technology for pulses developed under ‘National programme on Electronics and ICT applications in Agriculture and Environment (AgriEnIcs)’ alongwith ICAR-IARI, New Delhi was also launched on this occasion.
  • The appearance based e-Quality detection system for 14 types of pulses (Grain-Ex), would bring about a transformative change in the e-NAM markets for quality based pricing.
  • This will be helpful for more than 1,200 e-NAM connected markets.
e-NAM
  • It was launched on 14th April 2016 as a pan-India electronic trade portal linking Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) across the States.
  • It provides for contactless remote bidding and mobile-based anytime payment for which traders do not need to either visit mandis or banks for the same.
  • Already 585 mandis in 16 States and 2 Union Territories have been integrated on e-NAM portal and will be soon expanded to cover additional 415 mandis, which will take the total number of e-NAM mandis to 1,000.
Source- PIB

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