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On July 17, 2023, India’s Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying/Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), published Office Memorandum (OM) L-11/1/2019-Trade (E-11542).

The recovery of the 2023 southwest monsoon from third week of June and forecasted normal precipitation in July will support ongoing planting of kharif (fall harvested) season crops.

Report highlights: On June 28, 2023, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs updated its Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane marketing year (MY) 2023/2024 from INR 305 per quintal (USD $3.72/quintal) to a new high of INR 315 per quintal (USD $3.84/quintal). The new FRP will take effect starting October 1, 2023.

India’s Meteorological Department (IMD) continues to forecast a normal 2023 southwest monsoon, according to a second forecast report issued on May 26, predicting that June through September rainfall will likely reach 96 percent of the long period average (LPA)/fifty-year average of 870 millimeter (mm).

FAS Mumbai estimates marketing year (MY) 2023/24 India cotton production at 26 million 480 lb. bales on 12.7 million hectares planted, a decrease from the previous year on the expectation that farmers will shift cotton acreage to higher return crops such as oilseeds and pulses.

On February 17, 2017, the Government of India (GOI) notified amendments to the requirements for poultry and poultry product imports from countries reporting an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian....

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published official gazette notification which defines the microbiological standards for fish and fish products.

India’s CY 2017 beef and water buffalo meat (carabeef) production is projected to increase by four percent to 4.35 million tons carcass weight equivalent (CWE) due to population growth...

India is heading for a near-record wheat harvest with marketing year (MY) 2017/18 wheat production forecast at 95 million metric tons (MMT) on record area (31.8 million hectares).

On February 2, 2017, the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) published guidelines specific to e-commerce food business operators.

The Government of India (GOI) published its final standards for malt and malt-based foods in the Official Gazette of India.