Agri-commodities exports rise 43.4% in April-September: Government

Exports of agri-commodities rose by forty three.four per cent to Rs fifty three,626.six crore in the very first 50 percent of the existing fiscal notwithstanding the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the Union Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday.

Farm exports stood at Rs 37,397.3 crore all through the April-September period of the 2019-twenty fiscal, it said.

In September 2020, agri exports rose by eighty one.7 per cent to Rs 9,296 crore from Rs 5,114 crore in September 2019.

“The steady and concerted endeavours of the Governing administration to raise agricultural exports are bearing fruit as regardless of of the on-going Covid-19 crisis, the export of critical agri commodities for the cumulative period of April-September, 2020 has elevated by forty three.four per cent to Rs fifty three,626.six crore,” the ministry said in a statement.

Beneficial progress was recorded in export of groundnut (35 per cent), refined sugar (104 per cent), wheat (206 per cent), basmati rice (13 per cent) and non-basmati rice (105 per cent) all through the April-September of this fiscal from in excess of the year-in the past, it said.

In addition, stability of trade all through April-September 2020 was substantially constructive at Rs 9,002 crore as towards trade deficit of Rs two,133 crore in the said period, it extra.

To raise agri exports, the Governing administration announced Agriculture Export Plan, 2018 which inter-alia offers for cluster-primarily based tactic for export-centric farming of income crops like fruits, vegetables, spices, and many others. whereby clusters for distinct agri merchandise are determined across the state and concentrated interventions are carried out in these clusters.

Eight Export Promotion Community forums (EPFs) have been set up below the aegis of agri-export advertising human body APEDA to raise export of agriculture/ horticulture merchandise. The EPFs are created on banana, grapes, mango, pomegranate, onion, dairy, rice basmati and rice non-basmati.

The EPF are earning concerted endeavours to recognize, document particulars of, and access out to stakeholders across the complete output/ offer chain of export for escalating these exports substantially to the global sector, by way of a variety of interventions, it said.

That aside, the Governing administration has also announced Agri-Infra Fund of Rs 1 lakh crore to enhance agri organization natural environment which will market agri exports in thanks study course, the ministry said.

Moreover, the Agriculture Ministry has also organized a extensive motion strategy toward advertising of agri trade i.e to raise agri export with emphasis on price addition and a in depth motion strategy for import substitution, the statement extra.