An electronic market place for aqua farmers and buyers, e-SANTA, was inaugurated by Union Minister for Commerce and Piyush Goel at a virtual programme.<\/p>\n
The platform will help aqua farmers get better price and exporters to directly purchase quality products from the former enhancing traceability, a key factor in international trade, said a release.<\/p>\n
The term e-SANTA means Electronic Solution for Augmenting NaCSA Farmers Trade in Aquaculture. The National Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture (NaCSA) is an extension arm of the Kochi-based Marine Products Export Development Authority, under the Ministry of Commerce.<\/p>\n
e-SANTA is a paperless end-to-end electronic trade platform between farmers and exporters. Farmers have the freedom to list their produce and quote their price while exporters have the freedom to list their requirements and choose the products based on their requirements such as desired size, location, harvest dates.<\/p>\n
The platform will provide detailed specification of each product listing and is backed by an electronic payment system with NaCSA as an escrow agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"