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The country is currently undergoing a 40-days national-level lockdown because of the covid-19 outbreak and in this situation this very difficult for the farmers to reach the wholesale market or mandis to sale their produce also the consumers they cannot reach the wholesale market so there is a problem with storage, transportation, risk-management, logistic and many more marketing activities. This has led to some disruption in the supply chains, mostly in selling and buying of commodities specially food commodities. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer�s Welfare has launched 3 new features under the eNAM platform. These new features do not require farmers to physically move to the wholesale market to sell their crop produce, as well as to run agricultural marketing smoothly in this time of epidemic. Features under eNAM provide mobile based payment and contactless remote bidding and it helps improve social distance and safety in the APMCs to fight against covid-19. The main objective of research work is to emphasize the action plan steps taken by the union government to regularize movement of agricultural produce in the time of Covid-19 lockdown in our country. This is review paper and based on the secondary data sources which have been collected from the research papers, latest articles, websites, online news and government reports etc. The study captured step taken by government to expand the digital agriculture market by adding more mandis to clear the blockage under supply chain faced by the wholesale market yard. As of now, 585 mandis are linked to eNAM, with the union government planning to add additional 415 mandis to it, bringing the total number to 1000.