GOVT POLICY
States finalise
action plan for Agri
Export Policy
In a major push for doubling the
farmer‘s income and improve
the Agriculture export, Eight
states including Maharashtra,
Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil
Nadu, Punjab and Karnataka have
finalized the State Action Plan.
Many States have also nominated
Nodal agency and Nodal officer.
Commerce and Industry Ministry
has said , that other States are at
different stages of finalization of the
action plan.
The Agri Export Policy was
announced last year with an
objective of doubling the export
and ensuring doubling of farmers’
income. In order to achieve
this objective, Agricultural and
Processed Food Products Export
Development Authority has been
adopting a focused approach for
ensuring greater involvement of
the State governments for effective
implementation of Agri Export
Policy.
“Throughout the year APEDA
held a series of meetings with the
State Government officials and other
stakeholders for the preparation of
State Action Plan which included
all essential components like
production clusters, capacity
building, infrastructure and logistics
and R & D and budget requirements
for the implementation of AEP” the
Ministry said.
Several rounds of discussions
were also held with Ministry of
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare,
Department of Animal Husbandry
& Dairying, Ministry of Food
Processing Industries and other
agencies under Line Ministries for
seeking the inputs for formulating
a strategy to increase exports and
address the existing bottlenecks in
the trade.
State level Monitoring
Committees have been formed in
many of the States. Cluster visits
have been made by APEDA Nodal
officers to the product cluster, it
added.
The roadmap for cluster
development in the clusters notified
under AEP was prepared to address
the identified interventions during
the cluster visits.
APEDA has organised a number
of seminars and meetings for the
implementation of Agri Export
Policy throughout the year. A
workshop on the role of state nodal
agencies in agriculture exports was
organised in New Delhi on 3rd
September, 2019 where majority of
the states actively participated for
brainstorming on implementation
of AEP in States.
An MoU was signed with
National Cooperative Development
Corporation to include Cooperatives
for their active role
in AEP.
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