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Processing of fruits in India to reach 20 per cent of production by 2015: minister

The government has adopted a `Vision 2015' document, which envisages enhancing the level of processing of perishable commodities like fruits and vegetables to 20 per cent, enhancing value addition to 35 per cent and raising India's share in global food trade to 3 per cent by the year 2015. India is the second largest producer of fruits after China in the world, with 71.5 million tonne production in .....

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India: Organic farming tag for litchi

With an international accredited organic farming certification organization, International Panacea Ltd. (IPL), giving certification to litchi, Bihar government has made a headway in its efforts to extend organic farming in the state. Nafed, a national cooperative marketing federation, collaborated with IPL to assess the organic farming potential of litchi in 1,000 hectare area in north Bihar. Nafed, in collaboration with .....

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Pakistan may give India MFN status next month

Pakistan may grant most favoured nation (MFN) status to India during a visit by that country’s commerce minister Makhdoom Muhammad Ameen Faheen next month, which could boost bilateral trade. “My counterpart Zafar Mahmood is committed to MFN treatment to India and the general sense is that they want to open up to more and more trade items between the two countries. Some progress is .....

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Sri Lanka increases import taxes on some food items

The Cooperatives and Internal Trade Ministry said today that import taxes on several food items have been increased. The Ministry has said the taxes on big onions, potatoes and garlic have been increased. Taxes on a kilo of big onions have been increased by Rs. 10, potatoes by Rs. 5 and garlic by .....