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Employment in FPIS

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation releases data on various aspects including employment of registered manufacturing sectors including food processing sector through the Annual Survey of Industries(ASI). As per the latest Annual Survey of Industries 2019-20, food processing sector contributed 12.22% of total persons engaged in the registered manufacturing sector. The details of employment in food processing sector for last ...

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Millet Conclave to help boost exports of nutri-cereals

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal will be the Chief Guest at the ‘Millets-Smart Nutritive Food’ Conclave to be held in New Delhi tomorrow (05 December 2022, ). The Conclave is being organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry through its apex agricultural export promotion body, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) with ...

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Agriculture and Tourism-Based Industries under MSMEs

As per existing guidelines, some of the activities under agriculture and tourism based enterprises are already covered in the ambit of MSME sector. Activities under these two categories, for which Udyam Registration (UR) is allowed, are given in the dropdown menu of the UR portal. Agriculture based activities such as Preparation of crops of primary market i.e. cleaning, trimming, grading  ...

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Implementation of Seed Related Schemes

The Government is implementing various schemes to strengthen the seed production chain &to enhance availability of quality seeds & planting material of crops to farmers across the country through various schemes viz., National Food Security Mission (NFSM), Sub-Missions under National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) [Sub-Mission on Seeds & Planting Material (SMSP) &Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region] ...

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SHARE OF AGRI-EXPORTS IN GDP

The year-wise details of value of India’s agri-exports of principal agri commodity group along with its share in our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at current prices during last five years is as follows: Years Value of India’s Agri – Exports (in Rs. Crore) % Growth in agri-exports GDP at current prices (in Rs. Crore) % Share of Agri-Exports to GDP ...

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All-India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural and Rural Labourers – October, 2021

The All-India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers (Base: 1986-87=100) for the month of October, 2021increasedby 14pointseach to stand at 1081 (One thousand and eighty one) and 1090 (One thousand and ninety) points respectively. The major contribution towards the rise in general index of Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers came from Food group to the extent ...

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Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala today inaugurated the country’s first-of-its kind, dedicated business incubator to be known as LINAC- NCDC Fisheries Business Incubation Centre (LlFlC) in Haryana’s Gurugram costing Rs. 3.23 crore to nurture fisheries start-ups under real market-led conditions. Stating that the Centre will serve as a ‘milestone’ in future for the fisheries ...

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India to become Aatmanirbhar in Phosphatic Fertilisers

In order to improve the availability of phosphatic fertilisers (DAP and NPK) and to reduce the dependence on imports by making India truly Aatmnirbhar in fertilisers, Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers chaired a meeting with officials of Department of Fertilizers and stakeholders of Fertilizers industries. On the occasion Shri Mandaviya said, “I am glad that Department ...

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India has witnessed tremendous growth of 727% for Wheat export and 132% for (Non-Basmati) Rice export during 2020-21

India has consistently maintained trade surplus in the agricultural products over the years. India’s agricultural and allied exports during 2019-20 were Rs. 2.52 lakh Crores and imports were Rs. 1.47 lakh Crores. Even, during the difficult time of Pandemic, India took care not to disturb the world food supply chain and continued to export. The export of Agri and allied commodities ...

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Production of Milk, Milk Products, Egg and Poultry Meat 

The Estimated Production of Milk, Egg and Poultry Meat during the last three years is given below: –   Year Milk Production (in Million Tonnes) All India Egg Production (In Million Nos.) All India Poultry Meat Production (In 000 tonnes) All India 2015-16 155.49 82928.44 3263.81 2016-17 165.40 88136.96 3463.65 2017-18 176.34 95217.00 3766.94   The milk production in the ...

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