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Concerns with Agricultural exports in India
Current Affair
* unstable policies
* Lesser export promotion
Current Situation
* new agricultural export policy
* Stable exports for past 4 years
* Significant commodities- rice, marine products, meat and poultry, spices, oil seeds, fruits and vegetables, raw cotton, coffee, tobacco, tea, cashew
* Share of agriculture in total exports too rigid
* Absence of strategic approach and export promotion efforts
* Falling of rupee didn’t help much Relationship with imports
* value of exports become negligible
* Examples* National grid
* Imports as raw material
Concerns in Government approach
* limitations of government policies
* Little export promotion
* Lack of coordination among various ministries
Way Ahead
* generate export surplus
* Stable exim Policy
* Balance between exports and imports
* Inter-ministerial coordination
* New export policy