evidence: Further increasing its footprint, the Agriculture Ministry, on Monday, integrated 177 new mandis from 10 States, including Haryana (26) and Punjab (17), on the electronic National Agriculture Market taking the total number of mandis on the online portal, enabling farmers to sell without visiting regulated mandis, to 962. [...] According to officials, the 785 mandis integrated with e-NAM across 17 states and two Union Territories has a user base of 1.66 crore farmers, 1.30 lakh traders and 71,911 commission agents. [...] As many as 236 mandis also participated in an inter-mandi trade across 12 states while 13 states/UTs participated in the inter-state trade, allowing farmers to interact directly with distantly located traders, they said.