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The Standing Committee of Parliament connected Committee, headed by Trinamool Congress MP successful Rajya Sabha Dola Sen, has recommended accrued budgetary allocations for Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to assistance farmers and exporters to conscionable planetary export standards of Indian agriculture products.
The panel, successful a study connected Demands for Grants, tabled successful some the Houses earlier this week, said that successful bid to guarantee end-to-end traceability and fortify compliance with planetary standards, APEDA has developed web-based traceability systems specified arsenic GrapeNet (for grapes), Peanut.Net (for peanuts) and TraceNet (for integrated products), integrating growers, processors, handlers, exporters and certification authorities connected a azygous integer platform. “Export of these products is undertaken lone done online certification issued nether notified regulations, thereby enabling traceability and recognition of operators astatine each signifier of the proviso chain,” the sheet said appreciating the APEDA’s efforts bid producers, exporters and State Government officials. “In presumption of the expanding scope of traceability systems and the expanding request for compliance with stringent planetary standards, the underfunding of APEDA risks constraining its halfway mandate of export promotion crossed captious agri-products. The Committee, therefore, recommends that capable budgetary allocation beryllium provided to APEDA to transportation retired its enactment of promoting cultivation exports,” the sheet said urging the Government to beforehand sustainable cultivation practices by encouraging integrated and earthy farming.
Commenting connected the acceleration successful India’s commercialized statement architecture during 2025-26, the committee noted that specified escaped commercialized agreements collectively unfastened large caller avenues for Indian exporters crossed goods and services. It recommended that the Government indispensable found a dedicated post-implementation monitoring model for each concluded agreement. The sheet said FTAs should incorporated a structured and clip bound provisions of reappraisal mechanics for ensuring midway people correction successful the lawsuit of immoderate emerging “trade asymmetrics”.
