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World Food Prices Will Probably Decline This Year, UN Says

World food prices will probably fall this year, said Jose Graziano da Silva, the new director general of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. “We’re expecting that prices will not be growing,” da Silva, 62, said at a press conference in Rome today. “There will be some reductions. Volatility will remain.” Declines probably will be smaller than in 2009, according to the director general. As of February of that year, an index of .....

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Kingdom’s firms look for joint ventures in India

Saudi-Indian economic relations are to get a big boost with the arrival of a 50-member Saudi delegation led by Commerce and Industry Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah in New Delhi on Tuesday. During the next three days, the two sides are expected to discuss ways of strengthening investment and trade cooperation and setting up joint venture in vital sectors. Indian officials and businessmen have given utmost importance to the .....

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APEDA: Propelling India’s Agro Sector Growth

“APEDA is poised to take the export of agricultural and processed produce to new heights in the coming decade.”— Chairman Asit Tripathy. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) was set up in 1986. Since then, APEDA had been undertaking feasibility studies and setting up industries which adhere to international standards for 14 products categories including fruits and .....

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Indian poultry farmers assured govt. assistance

The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India’s main poultry producing state, N Kiran Kumar Reddy has assured local poultry associations that the state government will extend all possible help, support and incentives to the poultry sector in the State. A delegation of the poultry sector led by president of the AP Poultry Federation, D Sudhakar and the president of AP Breeders Association, Rami Reddy, called on the Chief Minister at .....