Indian exporters have huge opportunities to increase share in global agriculture trade: APEDA Chairman

09 Jan 2025 Evaluate

Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) Chairman Abhishek Dev has said that Indian exporters have huge opportunities to increase their share in the global agriculture trade from the current 2.4 per cent. The global agriculture trade is about $2 trillion. He said that given these numbers, ‘huge opportunities’ are there to increase exports from the country.

Despite being the seventh largest agri exporter in the world, he said ‘our share is 2.4 per cent in the overall world agri trade and immense possibilities are there to increase this share’. India's agri export was about $50 billion in 2023-24 and this year also, the country is looking at pushing the figure to ‘new record’. He added that the overall focus now is to promote exports of value-added goods.

Talking about exports of organic products, the chairman said India's share in this segment is about 2.5 per cent, ‘but we have an ambitious target of increasing the share four-times in the next five years and we are working on that’. The global market for organic goods is $147 billion. The country's organic food exports have grown at a steady pace and over the past decade, exports of organic products have grown from $213 million in 2012-13 to $494.80 million in 2023 -24.


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