Policy to boost Agricultural Exports


The Government introduced a comprehensive Agriculture Export Policy with the following vision:

“Harness export potential of Indian agriculture, through suitable policy instruments, to make India a global power in agriculture, and raise farmers’ income.”

Inter-alia, the objectives of the Agriculture Export policy are as under:

 

  1. To diversify our export basket, destinations and boost high value and value added agricultural exports, including focus on perishables.
  2. To promote novel, indigenous, organic, ethnic, traditional and non-traditional Agri products exports.
  3. To provide an institutional mechanism for pursuing market access, tackling barriers and dealing with sanitary and phytosanitary issues.
  4. To strive to double India’s share in world agri exports by integrating with global value chains.
  5. To enable farmers to get benefit of export opportunities in overseas market.

 

As part of the Agriculture Export Policy (AEP), several unique product-district clusters have been identified for export promotion, based on factors like existing production and export endowments, scalability of operations, size of the export  market / India’s share, and the potential for increase in exports. The list of indicative clusters identified in the AEP is at Annexure-I.

 

Annexure-I

List of Clusters

 

Product

Region

State

District

Banana

 

South

Kerala

Thrissur, Wayanad, Thiruvananthapuram

Andhra Pradesh

Kadapa, Anantapur

Tamil Nadu

Trichy, Theni, Pollachi

West

Maharashtra

Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Solapur

Gujarat

Bharuch, Narmada, Surat

Pomegranate

South

Andhra Pradesh

Anantapur, Kurnool

Karnataka

Belgaum, Mysore

West

Maharashtra

Solapur, Ahmednagar, Pune

Central

Madhya Pradesh

Khargone, Khandwa, Burhanpur

Mango

West

Maharashtra

Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg

Gujarat

Junagarh, Valsad, Kutch, Navsari

North

Uttar Pradesh

Saharanpur, Meerut, Lucknow

South

Telangana

Rangareddy, Mehboobnagar, Warangal

Andhra Pradesh

Krishna, Chittoor, Kurnool

Grapes

West

Maharashtra

Pune, Nasik, Sangli

Rose Onion

South

Karnataka

Bangalore Rural, Chikkaballapura

Onion

West

Maharashtra

Nasik

Central

Madhya Pradesh

Indore, Sagar, Damoh

Potato

North

Uttar Pradesh

Agra, Farukkabad

Punjab

Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Navashehar

West

Gujarat

Banaskantha, SabarKantha

Central

Madhya Pradesh

Indore, Gwalior

Tea

East

Assam

Tinsukia, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh

Coffee

South

Karnataka

Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu, Hassan

Marine products

South

Andhra Pradesh

East Godavari, Vishakapatnam, West Godavari, Nellore

East

Odisha

Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak, Balasore

West

Gujarat

Kutch, Veraval, Navasari, Valsad

Chilli

South

Telangana

Khammam, Warangal

Andhra Pradesh

Guntur

 

Turmeric

South

Telangana

Nizamabad, Karimnagar

Kerala

Wayanad, Alleppy

East

East

Meghalaya

West Jaintia Hills

Odisha

Kandhamal

Cumin

West

Gujarat

Banaskantha, Mehsana

North

Rajasthan

Jalore, Jodhpur, Barmer, Nagaur, Pali

Pepper

South

South

Kerala

Wayanad

Karnataka

Chikmagalur

Cardamom

South

Kerala

Idukki

Isabgol

North

Rajasthan

Jodhpur, Nagaur, Barmer, Jaisalmer

Castor

West

Gujarat

Banaskantha, Kutch, Patan, Sabarkantha, Mehsana

Orange

West

Maharashtra

Nagpur, Amravati, Wardha

 

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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    Source PIB