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BioFach and Vivaness 2012: Spotlight on India and sustainability

The world’s biggest exhibition for organic products opens its doors again for the international professionals from 15–18 February 2012. The 2,410 exhibitors (70 % international) from 83 countries at the exhibition duo present 100,000 organic products – equivalent to the products of more than 20 organic supermarkets. The global sector for organic food and non-food products like natural cosmetics and eco-textiles meets for the four days .....

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India's rice exporters bullish over basmati rice

With the increased demand for the Indian basmati rice in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and the UK, exporters have turned bullish on the prospects of the premium variety. Recently, India's Empowered Group of Ministers (EGOM) had slashed the Mininmum Export Price(MEP) of basmati to $700 from $900. The country expects to ship about 2.5 million tons of the basmati rice produced for 2011-12. Last year the exports was around 2.18 million .....

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Onion export floor price cut to $125/t

The Government has cut the minimum export price (MEP) of onion further to $125/tonne, but trade sources said the move will not be of much help as the current season is coming to an end. “The MEP of all varieties, excluding Bangalore Rose Onions and Krishnapuram Onion will be $125/tonne,” the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification late Wednesday. The exports of all premium varieties like Bangalore Rose and .....

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Bijapur grapes regain export glory

Former legislator and DCC Bank president Shivanand Patil has exported six tonnes of ‘Sharad,’ a seedless variety, this year. More than 3,500 farmers grow the fruit on 7,200 hectares in the district. Export quality variety used to be grown in 1,500 hectares. But several farmers stopped growing the export quality for lack of knowledge on post-harvest technology, processing, problems in transporting the produce and the risk of rejection, say .....