Zee News

Union minister of commerce, industry and civil aviation Suresh Prabhu on Sunday said that the agriculture export policy will be announced in the next few days. He said the policy aims to give a boost not only to agriculture but also to horticulture, plantation, fisheries and dairy sectors. He said the policy will help fetch good price for agricultural produce.

My digitalfc.com

With governments still pondering over best suited solution to address worsening air pollution in the National Capital, the country’s largest power producer, NTPC, has taken the lead by proposing to partially replace coal with pellets made of paddy straw and other agricultural residue to generate electricity in 35,000 MW of its power plants.

The New Indian Express

US President Donald Trump has said that his trade and tariff policies have started working and many countries, including India, have opened up their markets for American poultry and agricultural products that were not allowed previously.

Financial Express

There is a popular saying: “The best defense is a good offense.” And this adage sounds apt for the US, which, of late, has raised so many issues against India’s domestic support in its notification submitted to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to use the Agreement on Agriculture’s article 18.7. This notification prepared by the US in May 2018 shows that India is breaking the WTO negotiations rule. Indeed, the US has not followed the multilateral rules. President Donald Trump continuously makes such policies that distort the world’s free flow of trade, including the hikes in import duty of 25% for steel and aluminium against China, and the imposed trade restrictions on Iraq.