Policy to boost Agricultural Exports
The Government introduced a comprehensive Agriculture Export Policy with the following vision:
“Harness export potential of Indian agriculture, through suitable policy instruments, to make India a global power in agriculture, and raise farmers’ income.”
Inter-alia, the objectives of the Agriculture Export policy are as under:
- 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 dealing with sanitary and phytosanitary issues.
- To strive to double India’s share in world agri exports by integrating with global value chains.
- To enable farmers to get benefit of export opportunities in overseas market.
As part of the Agriculture Export Policy (AEP), several unique product-district clusters have been identified for export promotion, based on factors like existing production and export endowments, scalability of operations, size of the export market / India’s share, and the potential for increase in exports. The list of indicative clusters identified in the AEP is at Annexure-I.
Annexure-I
List of Clusters
| Product | Region | State | District |
| Banana | South | Kerala | Thrissur, Wayanad, Thiruvananthapuram |
| Andhra Pradesh | Kadapa, Anantapur | ||
| Tamil Nadu | Trichy, Theni, Pollachi | ||
| West | Maharashtra | Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Solapur | |
| Gujarat | Bharuch, Narmada, Surat | ||
| Pomegranate | South | Andhra Pradesh | Anantapur, Kurnool |
| Karnataka | Belgaum, Mysore | ||
| West | Maharashtra | Solapur, Ahmednagar, Pune | |
| Central | Madhya Pradesh | Khargone, Khandwa, Burhanpur | |
| Mango | West | Maharashtra | Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg |
| Gujarat | Junagarh, Valsad, Kutch, Navsari | ||
| North | Uttar Pradesh | Saharanpur, Meerut, Lucknow | |
| South | Telangana | Rangareddy, Mehboobnagar, Warangal | |
| Andhra Pradesh | Krishna, Chittoor, Kurnool | ||
| Grapes | West | Maharashtra | Pune, Nasik, Sangli |
| Rose Onion | South | Karnataka | Bangalore Rural, Chikkaballapura |
| Onion | West | Maharashtra | Nasik |
| Central | Madhya Pradesh | Indore, Sagar, Damoh | |
| Potato | North | Uttar Pradesh | Agra, Farukkabad |
| Punjab | Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Navashehar | ||
| West | Gujarat | Banaskantha, SabarKantha | |
| Central | Madhya Pradesh | Indore, Gwalior | |
| Tea | East | Assam | Tinsukia, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh |
| Coffee | South | Karnataka | Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu, Hassan |
| Marine products | South | Andhra Pradesh | East Godavari, Vishakapatnam, West Godavari, Nellore |
| East | Odisha | Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak, Balasore | |
| West | Gujarat | Kutch, Veraval, Navasari, Valsad | |
| Chilli | South | Telangana | Khammam, Warangal |
| Andhra Pradesh | Guntur | ||
| Turmeric | South | Telangana | Nizamabad, Karimnagar |
| Kerala | Wayanad, Alleppy | ||
| East East | Meghalaya | West Jaintia Hills | |
| Odisha | Kandhamal | ||
| Cumin | West | Gujarat | Banaskantha, Mehsana |
| North | Rajasthan | Jalore, Jodhpur, Barmer, Nagaur, Pali | |
| Pepper | South South | Kerala | Wayanad |
| Karnataka | Chikmagalur | ||
| Cardamom | South | Kerala | Idukki |
| Isabgol | North | Rajasthan | Jodhpur, Nagaur, Barmer, Jaisalmer |
| Castor | West | Gujarat | Banaskantha, Kutch, Patan, Sabarkantha, Mehsana |
| Orange | West | Maharashtra | Nagpur, Amravati, Wardha |
This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
