Kuwait bans Indian poultry products
The Dollar Business Bureau Following the outbreak of bird flu in Tripura on the 4th of January, Kuwait had imposed a ban on poultry product imports from India. In Oct the Gulf nations’ PAAFR department (Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources) had agreed to lift the ban on importing of live poultry, one-year old chicks of the egg laying hens and flesh hens from India. This decision by the Middle East could have a serious impact on India’s poultry exports as India mainly exports poultry to Middle East countries. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply said that it is important to share this information so that the same can be conveyed to the importing countries to ...
India focuses on food processing sector to bolster growth, exports
The Dollar Business Bureau | @TheDollarBiz India plans to use food processing industry as a buffer against imports of essential items during shortage Only about 2% of India’s fruits and vegetables are processed and improving this could boost India’s food exports and solve a plethora of problems faced by the Indian economy, according to Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister for Food Processing Industries (MoFPI). Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi today, Badal said that the government is planning to give a major push to India’s food processing industry which is growing at a rate of around 8.4%, compared to 6.6% growth in manufacturing and 3.3% in agriculture, the mainstays of Indian economy. Badal said that encouraging food processing could generate ...
