Letter to BS: The focus on five key sectors to push exports is welcome

“Efforts on to double exports from USD 321 billion” (January 28). The focus on five key sectors to push exports is welcome. There is a good scope to double the exports of agro-products and plantations provided some reforms are carried out. Apart from the export policy which should be fine-tuned, several other enablers needs a relook — government incentives to increase exports, remunerative prices for growers and the removal of certain quantitative restrictions.
 

Last month, the Director General of Foreign Trade issued a notification raising export incentive from 5 to 10 per cent for onion exports through the Merchandise Export