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India’s agricultural exports fall by 10% in 2015-16

11 May 2016 Evaluate

Amid lower global commodity prices and sluggish demand abroad, India’s agricultural and processed food exports fell by close to 20 percent in the fiscal year 2015-16, on the back of decline in shipments of major exportable items such as rice, buffalo meat and guargum in the year. The value of agri-product exports fell to Rs 1.05 lakh crore in FY16 against Rs 1.31 lakh crore reported in FY15, as per the data of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products and Export Development Authority (Apeda),.

The data further highlighted that the exports of buffalo meat, while declining 8 percent in value terms to Rs 26,682 crore in the last fiscal, still remained the largest item in the Apeda export basket. Buffalo meat exports surpassed the value of Basmati rice exports for the first time in financial year 2014-15. In the case of exports of non-Basmati rice, the decline was a steep 26 percent in terms of value. Further, the shipments of the aromatic grain fell 17 percent by value to Rs 22,714 crore in fiscal year 2015-16 mainly because of lower exports to Iran and a fall in prices. However, shipments of fresh fruit and vegetables saw a 10 percent rise in financial year 2015-16 to Rs 8,681 crore. Exports of guargum, mostly used by US-based oil exploration company, declined by more than 61 percent to Rs 3,613 crore in 2015-16 compared with Rs 9,478 crore in the previous year.

Apeda has identified 20-odd clusters located for sustaining growth in the country’s food products’ exports. These clusters include Basmati rice (Haryana and Punjab), buffalo meat (western Uttar Pradesh), grape and wine (Nashik region, Maharashtra), pomegranate (Satara and Pune regions of Maharashtra), dehydrated onions and garlic (Gujarat), poultry or egg (Namakkal) and mango pulp (Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra).


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