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On February 19, the Government of India (GOI) published a notification that rescinded -effective February 20- the import duty of 10 percent for cotton with a staple length above 32 millimeters (mm).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

South Asia, which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, accounts for 24 percent of the world’s population, with 1.84 billion people in 2019.

On January 4, 2021, the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India (GOI) confirmed the occurrence of highly pathogenic influenza (HPAI) virus of serotype H5N8...

The Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority published a clarification to the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulations, 2011...

Rainfall during the 2020 northeast monsoon season (October-December) was one percent higher (125 mm) than the normal fifty-year average.

The Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority of India published a directive that extends its implementation date for trans-fat limits in processed food products.

Changing its approach toward organic oversight in India, on January 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP) ended...

The Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority of India published the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Tenth Amendment Regulations...

Weekly report as of January 8, 2021, of COVID-19 impact on Indian port operations.

On December 30, 2020, the Government of India’s (GOI) Union Cabinet approved an interest subsidy of USD $626 million (INR 4573 crores) for augmenting its domestic ethanol production capacities.