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India-Japan FTA opens bilateral market

Duties on a large share of imports from Japan have been slashed, while doors are thrown open for India's exports to the USD five trillion Japanese market with the comprehensive free trade bilateral pact coming into force on Monday. Aimed at doubling the bilateral trade to USD 25 billion in three years, the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) will result in 94 percent of the bilateral tariffs being.....

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New food parks to help smaller Indian food manufacturers

New planned food parks in India are intended to help the food processing industry better manage the logistics behind the storage and transport of packaged food products in the country. According to N C Saha, the director of the Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), the central government of India is planning to set up 30 food parks in various states to help foster small and medium-sized businesses in the .....

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Kazakhstan keeping on increasing fruit imports

According to Fruit-Inform Project, Kazakhstan keeps on dynamically increasing fruit imports and becomes more and more attractive target market for international suppliers. Kazakhstan's fruit imports grew 7 times over last 5 years. This shows a dynamical growth of Kazakhs' demand for fruits and domestic growers' unreadiness to satisfy such a demand. Increase in demand is a result of changes in.....

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World rice crop, trade expected to hit new records

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reduced its April forecast of global paddy production in 2011 by 1.5 million tonnes to 718.3 million tonnes (478.9 million tonnes, milled). Still, world production will be 2.5 per cent over last year’s outcome, striking a new high. Thailand is expected to especially benefit from increased exports, with world market price recovery mainly reacting to the growing likelihood of a.....