Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu has said that India’s export surged to a six-year high of 9.8 percent in the financial year 2017-18. He pointed out that this positive growth in exports happened at a time when there is a lot of negative headwinds globally. Besides, he said that Commerce Ministry is working on a comprehensive state specific export strategy to revitalize India's exports and is working with key exporting ministries to formulate sectoral, commodity and territory specific export strategy.
The minister further said that meetings with concerned ministries have already been held where different ministries and stakeholders have been consulted after which a matrix of specific action points have been prepared sector wise, commodity wise and territory wise. Apart from this, Parbhu informed that he is personally monitoring the progress and regular meetings that are being held with sectoral ministries, export promotion councils and exporters. He added that certain issues which were affecting the growth of exports have been specifically taken up with the Department of Revenue and Ministry of Environment.
Prabhu has stated that the soon-to-be-unveiled new agriculture export policy will give a major boost to the agricultural sector and will pave the way for Indian farmer's income to be doubled. He added that India produces 600 metric ton of agricultural produce and has the capacity to export excess production to the world.
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