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The author is correspondent with BW Businessworld
Industry must not expect the government to do everything. “It is a relation of a son-in-law and father-in-law, every time a new dimension will add to food processing sector and government cannot give gifts every time,” said Suresh Prabhu
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India’s food processing sector continues to grow in response to changing demographics, evolving preferences for branded and convenient items, retail and food service sector modernization, and government efforts to develop food manufacturing
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A fund of Rs 612.61 crore had been established for blue revolution which has been claimed to achieve 8.9 per cent growth in fish output from the existing rate
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An agriculture credit of Rs 11 lakh crore in addition to a specific agriculture budget of Rs 63,836 crore had been announced in the Union Budget 2018
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The massive increase in population (despite the slowing down of the rate of growth) and substantial income growth, demand an extra about 2.5 MT (million tonne) of food-grains annually, besides significant increases needed in the supply of livestock, fish and horticultural products
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"70 per cent rural and some 50 per cent urban population is covered under PDS and there are more than 5.27 lakh fair price shops in India functioning via PDS. This makes it world’s largest food distribution network," said PK Tiwari
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World’s most influential food bodies like FAO also speaks about sources of protein needs (pulses & dairy produces)
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The Indian fertilizer industry is highly subsidised and the subsidy budget has consistently increased from around 4,500 crore in Financial Year 1990-91 to 70,000 crore for 2017-18
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Alounkeo Kittikhoum, Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Lao People's Democratic Republic said that the country hopes that India can help the ASEAN countries in improving agricultural productivity, enhancing farmers’ income and sharing of farm technology
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For a wide range of food products, mandatory EU-harmonized COOL requirements do not yet exist. However, most exporters should be aware that the future dual origin labelling rules will also apply to imports from third countries
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