Quality & best practices important for success of agri export policy: Commerce Secretary

07 Feb 2020 Evaluate

Describing agriculture as the core of India’s developmental goals, Commerce Secretary, Anup Wadhawan has said that the states and union territories should focus on both quantity and quality of agri produce to promote exports of agricultural goods. He emphasized that the best agronomic practices in all the sectors of agriculture must be followed in the State agri export policy (AEP) because quality of India’s agri products should never be compromised.

Besides, Commerce Secretary stressed that the States/ Union Territories (UTs) will have to strengthen their institutional mechanisms for putting in place the AEP and development of clusters. He also said that this is an opportunity for the States/ UTs to formulate a comprehensive plan, covering all key areas of the AEP, across all sectors in agriculture like horticulture, fisheries, animal husbandry, dairying, food processing, floriculture and water shed development.

Wadhawan added that the institutional framework of the AEP must be outcome oriented and all States/ UTs must provide a budget for it. He further said that the AEP must have a decentralised focus that is built up from the cluster level to the district and the state level plan and the policy must link up with all schemes of Government of India across all Ministries and Departments and project the vision for the agriculture sector for the next five years.

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