The government has managed to achieve its earlier set target to link all agricultural markets to the Electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) in its first phase. In a reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today (7 April), Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Parshottam Rupala said that the government had linked 417 markets across 13 states against the target of 400 markets for March 2017. A total of 585 markets are to be added by March 2018.