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FAS Mumbai forecasts marketing year (MY) 2025/26 India cotton production at 25 million 480 lb. bales on 11.4 million hectares of planted area, a three percent decrease from the previous year due to an expected shift of planted area to higher-return crops such as pulses and oilseeds.

Effective September 1, 2024, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) commenced its implementation for the mandatory registration of foreign food manufacturing facilities (FFMF) who import certain categories of foods

On February 20, 2025, India’s Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, published a memorandum requiring post-import testing of raw hide / skin / furskins for specified diseases.

Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana in southern India, has an economy driven by information technology, pharmaceuticals, and retail, making it a prime market for expanding U.S. products.

On May 16, 2018, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued a clarification on its April 25, 2018, notification regarding the quantitative restrictions (QRs) on imports of peas....

India’s MY 2018/19 coffee crop (Oct/Sep) is forecast at 5.5 million 60-kg bags as erratic rains and unusually high temperatures touched coffee growing regions.

The first edition of Food India, inspired by SIAL, will be held between September 16 -18, 2018, at Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre in New Delhi.

India has invited World Trade Organization (WTO) members to provide comments on its draft standards for coffee, coffee-chicory mixture and packaged drinking water.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast a near normal Southwest Monsoon for 2018 suggesting that June to September rainfall is likely to be 97 percent of the Long Period Average (LPA).

MY 2018/19 (April-March) wheat production estimate has been raised higher to 95 million metric tons (MMT) on reports of higher yield realization in northern India.

On May 1, 2018, the Government of India’s (GOIs) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published the Draft Food Safety and Standards (Import) Amendment Regulations, 2018....

The Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) fourth amendment regulations....