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06 Mar, 2025 News Image Indian arabica shipments rise 60% in Jan-Feb on good demand.
Indian arabicas are experiencing strong demand from overseas buyers in the early part of this calendar year, despite overall coffee shipments lagging behind last year’s levels due to a persistent global supply shortage. Per Coffee Board data, the permits issued during the first two months were up 64 per cent for premium arabica parchment variety at 9,881 tonnes over 6,025 tonnes a year ago. Similarly, the arabica cherry exports were up 60 per cent at 2,636 tonnes (1,647 tonnes).
 Source:  thehindubusinessline.com
06 Mar, 2025 News Image Iran's fruit export ban has increased demand for European apples in India.
The reaction of Indian apple importers to Iran's export ban on the product was immediate. 'For the past few days, I have been receiving many calls from Indian apple importers requesting European fruit. The inquiries I personally receive mainly concern Italian apples, but our commercial partner in Poland, the company Miltrade, is also seeing increased demand for apples from India,' comments Mrs. Elisavet Kyriazi, a fruit broker based in Imathia, Greece, specializing in the markets of Iran and India, as well as in apples and kiwifruit.
 Source:  freshplaza.com
04 Mar, 2025 News Image Sugar export quota of 1 million tonne will be met in two months: ISMA.
India will easily exhaust its 1 million tonne sugar export quota allowed by the government for the current marketing year, Deepak Ballani, Director General of Indian Sugar and Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) told ANI. Sugar marketing season in India runs from October to September.
 Source:  theprint.in
04 Mar, 2025 News Image Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal heads to US for trade talks as Trump tariffs loom, officials say.
India's trade minister Piyush Goyal started on a trip to the United States on Monday to pursue trade talks, two government officials said, with weeks to go for President Donald Trump's planned reciprocal tariffs. Goyal's visit was sudden, as he departed after cancelling previously scheduled meetings until March 8, the officials said. He is also the minister for industry.
 Source:  economictimes.indiatimes.com
04 Mar, 2025 News Image Andhra Pradesh's Araku Coffee earns organic certification, secures buyers from Europe, Tata group.
Andhra Pradesh's Girijan Cooperative Corporation Ltd (GCC) has achieved a significant milestone with its organic certification for Araku coffee, enabling it to enter several European markets and secure a major domestic buyer in Tata Consumer Products, who will handle the marketing and sale of the coffee. GCC Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Kalpana Kumari, said the response to this initiative has been overwhelmingly positive. Building on this success, the corporation plans to extend its organic certification efforts to include pepper, in partnership with Tata Consumer Products.
 Source:  economictimes.indiatimes.com
04 Mar, 2025 News Image Thailand Pushes For Enhanced Trade Ties With India.
Thailand is making significant strides toward enhancing its economic outlook through potential trade agreements with India, particularly focusing on the elevation of the existing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations and boosting bilateral trade relations. This development emerges following discussions on February 26, 2025, between Phichai Naripthaphan, Thailand’s Minister of Commerce, and Suman Berry, Vice-Chairman of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog).
 Source:  evrimagaci.org
04 Mar, 2025 News Image India, Israel discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in agri sector.
Ambassador of Israel to India Reuven Azar on Friday called on Agriculture Secretary Devesh Chaturvedi and discussed opportunities for strengthening cooperation in agriculture and allied sectors between the two nations. The meeting focused on the upcoming visit of the Israel Agriculture and Food Security Minister, the impact of Centers of Excellence (CoEs) across 20 states on productivity, precision irrigation, post-harvest management, and market access issues.
 Source:  economictimes.indiatimes.com
04 Mar, 2025 News Image Shift towards developed markets: India's FTA needle turns to the West.
It is exactly 25 years of India’s free trade agreement (FTA) journey, started in the year 2000 when India-Sri Lanka FTA came into effect on 1st March, 2000. Post that, India turned its focus towards East under much published “Look East Policy” and went on to sign FTAs with Singapore, ASEAN, Korea, Japan, and Malaysia. The idea was to diversify India’s export market beyond the West to new emerging economies in the East. Practically during this period, India’s entire focus remained on the Asia-Pacific Region. The much-publicised RCEP, from which India eventually pulled out, too comprised countries from Asia-Pacific region.
 Source:  business-standard.com
04 Mar, 2025 News Image ICAR-CIPHET Licenses Groundnut and Makhana Processing Technologies to Karnataka and Bihar Firms.
ICAR-Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (ICAR-CIPHET), Ludhiana, is spearheading innovation in food processing by transferring advanced technologies to forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Recently, the institute licensed its technology for groundnut-based products to a firm in Karnataka and provided state-of-the-art makhana processing machinery to a company in Bihar.
 Source:  krishijagran.com
04 Mar, 2025 News Image Ukraine, trade talks on table as Jaishankar visits UK today.
Days after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted an emergency meeting of European leaders in support of Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — after the latter’s public showdown with US President Donald Trump and Vice-President J D Vance at the White House — External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is headed to London to meet the British government’s leadership, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
 Source:  indianexpress.com