- Trader Resistance: Major challenge in making traders move online from physical, cash-based transactions.
- Quality Verification: Difficulty in knowing quality of produce when farmers/traders are in different places.
- Requires quality labs and online quality certificates.
- Traders still prefer physical verification.
- Storage Capacity: Farmers still need to bring produce to mandi, and it takes time for traders to take it.
- Payment Mechanism: Traders need to make online payments before taking produce.
- Limited Adoption: Less than 5% of wholesale trade shifted online since 2016.
- Inter-mandi/Inter-state Trade: Remained a non-starter.