{"id":306706,"date":"2018-12-07T04:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306706"},"modified":"2018-12-07T04:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:42:55","slug":"cabinet-approves-agriculture-export-policy-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cabinet-approves-agriculture-export-policy-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves Agriculture Export Policy 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306707 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/farms-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/farms-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/farms-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/farms-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/farms-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/farms-1068x709.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/farms-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/farms.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Union cabinet approved an export policy for agriculture, lifting all restrictions on organic and processed food, to help the government\u2019s efforts to double farmers\u2019 income by 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Cabinet has also approved the proposal for establishment of Monitoring Framework at Centre with Commerce as the nodal Department with representation from various line Ministries\/Departments and Agencies and representatives of concerned State Governments, to oversee the implementation of Agriculture Export Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe objective of the Agriculture Export Policy will be to double agricultural exports from present 30 billion dollar to 60 billion dollar by 2022 and reach 100 billion dollar in the next few years thereafter, with a stable trade policy regime,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In order to provide an impetus to agricultural exports, the Government has come out with a comprehensive \u201cAgriculture Export Policy\u201d aimed at doubling the agricultural exports and integrating Indian farmers and agricultural products with the global value chains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Agriculture Export Policy has the vision to \u201charness export potential of Indian agriculture, through suitable policy\u00a0 \u00a0instruments, to make India global power in agriculture and raise farmers\u2019 income.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe objective is to diversify our export basket, destinations and boost high value- and value-added agricultural exports including focus on perishables, to promote novel, indigenous, organic, ethnic, traditional and non-traditional Agri products exports. To provide an institutional mechanism for pursuing market access, tackling barriers and deal with sanitary and phytosanitary issues,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union cabinet approved an export policy for agriculture, lifting all restrictions on organic and processed food, to help the government\u2019s efforts to double farmers\u2019 income by 2022.\u00a0 The Cabinet has also approved the proposal for establishment of Monitoring Framework at Centre with Commerce as the nodal Department with representation from various line Ministries\/Departments and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10146,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306708,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306706\/revisions\/306708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}