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APEDA adopts cluster approach on exports to beat global slowdown

With significant rise in exports of aromatic basmati rice, buffalo meat, fruit and vegetables during few years, the country’s export of fruit and vegetables is expected to match last year’s level despite signs of global economic slowdown. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), has identified 20 odd clusters located across the country for maintaining healthy growth in the country’s .....

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All food manufacturers require FDA licence

All food manufacturers, be it small retailers and street hawkers or canteens and starred hotels, will have to register or obtain a licence from the food and drugs administration (FDA) as part of a change in the administrative regime for the industry. "Earlier, the approvals were issued to food manufacturers under the Goa Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules 1982," Salim Veljee, FDA director said. But after the notification of .....

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Empowered Group of Ministers to meet tomorrow to discuss wheat, rice exports

Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food is scheduled to meet tomorrow to discuss allowing exports of wheat and non-basmati rice, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said on Wednesday. "The EGoM on Food will meet tomorrow and we will discuss wheat and rice exports," he told reporters after meeting Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. Sharma, along with Textiles Secretary Rita Menon, met Pawar and .....

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Vietnam: Agricultural imports rise 23%

Viet Nam saw a year-on-year increase of 22.6 per cent to US$10.4 billion in the first eight months of this year in imports of material for production and processing and finished products for the farming. Nguyen Van Ky, general secretary of the Viet Nam Fruit and Vegetable Association, said Viet Nam's $181-million import value for fruit and vegetables during the first eight months of the year was irrational because .....