The logistics data bank system has so far tracked over 75 million export and import containers, the commerce and industry ministry said on Thursday. The Logistics Data Bank System (LDB) is a major initiative of NICDC Logistics Data Services (NLDS) to provide the export-import container visibility service across India along with comparative performance metrics.

Floriculture is a rapidly emerging sector in India, commonly referred to as a 'sunrise sector' due to its immense potential for income generation and employment creation, especially for small and marginal farmers, many of whom are women. 

UAE-based Lulu Group International will set up modern food processing and logistic centres in Andhra Pradesh.

India’s coffee exports in the first half of the fiscal year registered a 55 per cent growth in value at $929.95 million compared with $601.58 million a year ago on higher global prices. In volume terms, exports were up 15 per cent at over 2.20 lakh tonnes from s 1.91 lakh tonnes a year ago.

The state of Meghalaya has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Cooperative Organics Limited (NCOL) through MEGNOLIA (Meghalaya Natural and Organic Society for Livelihood and Innovation in Agriculture).

The 2023-24 agricultural marketing year (October-September) ended with the government procuring 52.544 million tonnes (mt) of rice – 46.303 mt from the kharif crop and 6.241 mt from the rabi season.

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, during his visit to the United States, participated in a series of high-level engagements, reinforcing the strong trade and investment relationship between India and the US.