Exports of agricultural and processed food products rose by 14.7% to $11.65 billion during the April-October period on the back of healthy growth in commodities
India accounts for only 2.5 per cent of the global agriculture exports, and there is an opportunity to double it in the medium term and improve the economics of the sector, ITC Chairman Sanjiv Puri
India's soybean meal exports grew two-and-a-half times to 5.99 lakh tonnes during the first quarter of current oil marketing year
However the upsides are capped given stock gains and margin pressures
Exports of agri-commodities rose by 43.4 per cent to Rs 53,626.6 crore in the first half of the current fiscal notwithstanding the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the Union Agriculture Ministry said
Solvent Extractors' Association wants incentives on oilmeals to be hiked further; seeks inclusion of groundnut meal and cottonseed linter in MEIS
Marine products, buffalo meat, rice including basmati have been top contributors to exports basket
An institutional mechanism is required as India lacks a coherent mechanism to respond to notices of the importing countries