India’s role in global export of agricultural products is steadily increasing. India has reached sixth place amongst the major exporters of agriculture products globally as per WTO trade data for 2013. Our share in global exports of agriculture products which used to hover around 1- 1.5 % a few years ago has reached a respectable level of 2.7%. However, considering the large and diverse production base, there is immense potential which can be harnessed by further value addition to the agro produce.
With this background, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) with the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) organized the Brainstorming Session on Promoting Export of Value Added Products from India on 12 March, 2015 at New Delhi. This Report of the Brainstorming session on Promoting Exports of Value Added Products from India helps identify strategies that are needed to give an impetus to exports of processed food products; support that is needed, apart from existing Government schemes to promote exports and understand issues that are holding back processors from exporting.