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24 Sep, 2025 News Image US-India trade talks raise hope for ag market access.
The United States and India made progress on Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said amid ongoing trade talks and steep US tariffs imposed as part of Washington’s pressure campaign over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, according to Reuters. 'We had meetings with them again yesterday, and it has to do with their purchase of Russian oil,' Rubio said in a interview on ABC News' 'Good Morning America' program on Tuesday, citing 'a lot of progress.'
 Source:  thepoultrysite.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image Goyal meets US Trade Representative in New York.
Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal held a meeting with US trade representative Jamieson Greer in New York to discuss the first tranche of the bilateral trade agreement between India and the US, All India Radio reported. The meeting follows recent trade talks in Delhi between Assistant US Trade Representative Brendan Lynch and India’s chief trade negotiator Rajesh Agrawal, where both sides agreed to speed up efforts.
 Source:  tribuneindia.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image Apeda figures low in fiscal support even as India looks to sign FTAs.
As India looks to sign bilateral trade agreements with countries across the globe, the latest being with Israel, an analysis of the budgets of its agriculture-centric trade-promotion bodies shows that the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), which handles the highest amount of farm export, has got the least increase in budgetary support over the last decade. Such bodies play a vital role in trade negotiations. Apeda, according to trade estimates, exported agricultural products worth around Rs.2.08 trillion in 2023-34 (FY24).
 Source:  business-standard.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image 'Other East African origins can extend avocado supply for India'.
Over the past five years, India's imported avocado volumes have surged as consumer demand grows alongside steady supplies of Tanzanian Hass avocados, says Jai Kabra, Co-founder of Kenyan trading company Truport Transcontinental Limited, which evolved from a logistics service provider. 'Our roots are in supply chain and logistics, so trading was a natural extension once we saw potential for avocados in the Indian market.'
 Source:  freshplaza.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image US, India met for more talks this week, says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The United States and India held meetings on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday, citing its Russian oil purchases. 'We had meetings with them again yesterday, and it has to do with their purchase of Russian oil,' Rubio said in a interview on ABC News' 'Good Morning America' program.
 Source:  economictimes.indiatimes.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image Food Ministry signs pact with FCI; sets target for procurement, better management of subsidy.
The Food Ministry has signed a pact with state-owned FCI for the current fiscal, setting measurable targets to improve foodgrains procurement and distribution operations for optimal management of subsidy. According to an official statement on Tuesday, the Department of Food and Public Distribution and the Food Corporation of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the 2025-26 fiscal.
 Source:  economictimes.indiatimes.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image Amid Trump heat, EAM Jaishankar meets EU peers; Brazil, Mexico ministers join in.
External affairs minister S Jaishankar was part of an informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers, hosted by EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Kaja Kallas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. The meeting also included ministers from Brazil and Mexico and focused on key global issues, including multilateralism, the India-EU partnership, Ukraine conflict, Gaza situation, energy, and trade.
 Source:  economictimes.indiatimes.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image World Food India 2025 to be inaugurated by Prime Minister on 25thSeptember at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) is set to host the fourth edition of World Food India (WFI) 2025 from 25th to 28th September 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Covering an expansive area of 1,00,000 sq. meters, this mega global food event will witness participation from more than 21 countries, 21 Indian States/UTs, 10 Central Ministries and 5 allied government organisations, making it the largest congregation of stakeholders in India’s food processing sector.
 Source:  pib.gov.in
24 Sep, 2025 News Image Centre approves procurement of major kharif pulses, oilseeds in UP, Gujarat.
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday approved procurement of major Kharif pulses and oilseeds from Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat this year. A decision in this regard was taken in a virtual meeting with Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat Agriculture Ministers Surya Pratap Shahi and Raghavji Patel, respectively.
 Source:  economictimes.indiatimes.com
24 Sep, 2025 News Image Datanomics: Corn symbolises thorny issues in US-India trade talks.
India’s resistance to significantly increase the import of US corn has been one of the friction points in the ongoing trade talks. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently said that India has 1.4 billion people but it 'does not import a single bushel of corn from the US''. However, corn accounts for less than 1 per cent of India’s overall agricultural & allied imports. And India imports only a minuscule share of corn from the US. In fact, between FY18 and FY25, India’s annual corn imports from the US averaged just about $ two million.
 Source:  business-standard.com