In 2022-23, the Agri-exports have reached $53.1 billion with a registered growth of 18%. India supplies more than 3% of world agri-export commodities. This has been rising in the last few years in absolute terms, but it is shrinking in proportion to India’s GDP. It is noted that agri-trade in the total agri-GDP has slid…
The Government wants to diversify the agricultural markets to reduce over-reliance on the APMC system across India. For this various schemes and systems have been put in place. e-RaKAM: Rashtriya Kisan Agri Mandi or e-RaKAM brings together the farmers, PSUs, civil supplies and buyers on a single platform to ease the selling and buying process…
E-technology refers to the Internet and related information technologies. “Digital Agriculture”, a recently coined catchphrase, seems a misnomer – it actually refers to the use of digital technologies in managing the business of agriculture. ‘Digital Technologies in Agriculture’ is probably the more accurate narrative. There are three basic pillars for the digital empowerment of farmers…
Draft National Policy on Food Processing 2019: It aims to increase investment in the sector by six-fold by 2035. Promotion of cluster approach: strengthening and creation of integrated supply chain infrastructure to minimize wastages; Incentivize expansion and up-gradation of technology for processing and preservation, particularly for perishables; Increased institutional credit at an affordable cost for investment…
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Primary Secondary Tertiary Aimed at making food edible Turns ingredients into different forms with low-value addition. High-value addition can create a variety of food. Although such food is criticised for having too much sugar and salt…
Constitutional Provisions on Agriculture List II: Entry 14: Agriculture; [Thus markets are administered by the States]. Entry 26: (Trade and Commerce) and 27 (Production supply and distribution goods and services); Both subject to entry 33 of the concurrent list. List III: Entry 33 of List III: Trade and commerce in, and the production, supply and…