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On February 19, the Government of India (GOI) published a notification that rescinded -effective February 20- the import duty of 10 percent for cotton with a staple length above 32 millimeters (mm).

FAS Mumbai forecasts marketing year (MY) 2023/24 cotton production at 26 million 480 lb. bales on 12.7 million hectares area planted, unchanged from the previous forecast. A strong pace of new crop arrivals during the first four months of the MY indicates a much larger crop size than previous trade estimates.

FAS New Delhi estimates India’s rapeseed-mustard production for marketing year (MY) 2023/2024 (October-September) at 11.9 million metric tons (MMT), harvested from 9.3 million hectares following favorable cold weather during the rabi crop season.

Post has revised its India cotton area estimate to 13.3 million hectares, making it the highest cotton area in the country’s history.

Assuming a normal monsoon season (June-September), India’s fluid milk production is forecast to rise from an estimated 191 MMT in Calendar Year (CY) 2019 to 195 million metric tons....

Over the last decade, India’s political environment continues to thwart the development of agricultural biotechnology.

On February 1, 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Government of India’s (GOI) annual budget for Indian Fiscal Year (IFY) 2020/21.

In calendar year (CY) 2019, the Government of India (GOI) extended the compliance timeline for the advertising and claims regulations, labeling of milk and milk products....