Today: 23 June 2025
9 August 2022
1 min read

Collaborations with UAE helps boost Indian farm exports

The GI tag is described by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation as belonging to products “that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin”…reports Krishnan Nayar

Buyer-seller meets in the UAE on agricultural and food products with registered geographical indication (GI) tags, a week-long mango festival in Bahrain, and an international buyer-seller meet in Ladakh attended by buyers from Dubai and Oman helped boost India’s export of these items by 31 percent in April to June, the first quarter of this financial year.

According to data released by India’s Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), the overall export of agricultural and food products increased to US$7,408 million from April to June 2022 from US$ 5,663 million over the same period of the last fiscal year. The export target for this quarter was fixed at $5,890 million, which has been exceeded.

“Organised in collaboration with the Union Territory of Ladakh, the international buyer-seller meet was aimed at boosting exports of apricots from Ladakh in particular. Eighteen entrepreneurs from Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir displayed a range of apricots and other farm products to attract buyers from the Gulf,” the DGCI&S said.

The GI tag is described by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation as belonging to products “that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin”.

At the mango festival in Bahrain, 34 varieties of mangoes from India’s eastern states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha, were displayed, according to the DGCI&S.

ALSO READ: UAE to invest $1 billion in Pakistani companies

Previous Story

UAE tightens realty rules

Next Story

UAE public spending rises 19% to Dh87.4 bn

Latest from -Top News

Fresh Israeli Raids Hit Iran

The strikes came shortly after Iran fired a missile at Israel before dawn and triggered air raid sirens across much of the country….reports Asian Lite News Israel conducted a new wave of

Netanyahu: Iran Goals Near

Netanyahu pledged not to let Israel get dragged into a “war of attrition” with Tehran…reports Asian Lite News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that Israel is “very close” to

Khamenei Vows Payback

Calling the attacks “a big crime,” Khamenei warned of retaliation….reports Asian Lite News Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday, in his first reaction following the US strikes on Iranian nuclear

US committed great crime: Iran

Iran has now called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and demanded the IAEA Board of Governors address the situation….reports Asian Lite News Iran has strongly condemned the United

Strike Iran, Face Us, Houthis warn US

The Yemen-based Houthi group, which controls much of northern Yemen, has been targeting Israel since November 2023…reports Asian Lite News Yemen’s Houthi group issued a stark warning on Sunday, declaring they would
Go toTop

Don't Miss

Abu Dhabi grants Dh1.5bn housing benefits to Emiratis

The approval of the second package for 2022 coincides with

Saif bin Zayed tours Vatican Pavilion at Expo 2020

H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy