BIMSTEC members should re-examine the priorities of member nations with regards to trade negotiations so that the delayed Free Trade Agreement can be finalized. This was stated by Union Minister of Commerce & Industry Shri Piyush Goyal while delivering his speech at the inaugural edition of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Business Summit organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India here today.
Purandar Highlands Farmers Producer Company Ltd has achieved a significant milestone by exporting India’s first GI-tagged fig juice to Poland. This follows the successful export of India’s first commercial consignment of GI-tagged Purandar figs to Hong Kong in February 2023.
An organic basmati rice consignment sent from Pakistan to Germany has been found to contain genetically modified (GM) rice by the European Union (EU) authorities.
All India Cashew Association (AICA), a national association of nine State-level cashew associations, will organise its inaugural edition of the ‘AICA Cashew Convention’ between August 8 and 10 in Bengaluru.
Bangladesh-bound trucks carrying more than 4,500 tonne of onion from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, which were stuck at Petrapole land port near Bangladesh border in West Bengal since Monday, are now being allowed to enter the neighbouring country, exporters said.
'Trade between India and Bangladesh through Petrapole land port in West Bengal, resumed on Thursday morning (August 8, 2024) amid tight security,' officials said.
Agtech start-up Svastha Ecoharvest is gearing up to export India’s first consignment of Sona Masoori brown rice to Europe. Such rice shipments so far have only been from the Basmati category.
Patna, The Bihar government has urged the Centre to open a branch office of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority in Patna to boost the export of agricultural produce from the state.
Government has lifted the onion export prohibition from 4th May, 2024 and has allowed the export with minimum export price of (MEP) of USD 550 per MT and export duty of 40%. Till 31st July, 2024, a total quantity of 2.60 lakh tons of onion had been exported in current financial year 2024-25.
