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Government of India notified Draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2016 relating to vertical standards of fish and fish products to the...

FAS India recruited and supported a regional delegation of ten delegates to attend Food and Hotel Asia (FHA), Singapore, 2016. The FHA Singapore, a USDA endorsed show, had a record 92 exhibitors.

The first advance planted area estimates for 2016 indicate that a normal monsoon led to a marginal increase in overall Kharif season planting area. While the area seeded under pulses increased...

Post forecasts the Indian coffee crop for marketing year (MY) 2016/17 (Oct/Sep) at 5.1 million 60-kg bags. Higher global prices for both Arabica and Robusta varieties, coupled with a smaller Indian...

Goa is a dynamic destination on India’s coastline that is a growing marketplace for food, beverage and agricultural products.

Better yield prospects in Northern India have prompted a revision of the MY 2016/17 production estimate to 27 million 480 lb. bales while area has been revised lower to 10.5 million hectares...

The MY 2016/17 wheat production forecast is revised lower to 87 million metric tons (MMT) based on continued tight domestic market supplies.

A buyer recruited by the Office of Agricultural Affairs (OAA) in Mumbai, India, for a trade mission to Gulfood 2016 in Dubai reported importing approximately U.S. $7 million in tree nuts...

Pork production in India is estimated at 464 thousand metric tons in FY 2014-15 (April-March), which contributes approximately eight percent of the country’s animal protein sources.

On July 12, 2016, India notified a draft regulation related to Microbiological Standards of Fruits and Vegetables and their Products to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

On July 8, 2016, the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries notified requirements for poultry and poultry product imports from countries reporting an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic...

The Government of India’s (GOI) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published a draft amendment relating to adoption of 46 Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for food additives.