Lok Sabha Question No. 446 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-04
Subject: Food Items under Export Promotion Schemes
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: Shri Durai Vaiko

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 446 ANSWERED ON 04/02/2025

## FOOD ITEMS UNDER EXPORT PROMOTION SCHEMES

## 446. SHRI DURAI VAIKO:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ( वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मं त्री ) be pleased to state:

the details of assistance given to the exporters and beneficiaries of value-added agricultural/processed  food  items  under  the  Export  Promotion  Schemes  of  Agricultural  and Processed  Food  Products  Export  Development  Authority  (APEDA)  and  Spices  Board  in  the Tiruchirappalli  and  Pudukottai  district  during  the  last  five  years  including  current  year,  year wise?

## ANSWER

## वाणिज्य और उद्योग मंत्रालय में राज्य मंत्री (श्री णिणिन प्रसाद)

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (SHRI JITIN PRASADA)

The Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) provides financial assistance to the exporters of its scheduled products under its Agriculture and Processed Foods Export Promotion Scheme, for the 15th Finance Commission Cycle (2021-22 to 2025-26) in three components: (i) Development of Export Infrastructure, (ii) Quality Development, (iii) Market Development. The assistance is provided to exporters on a pan India basis which covers all the States, including Tamil Nadu.

For  Pudukkottai  district  of  Tamil  Nadu,  APEDA  has  provided  financial  to  three beneficiaries during the period 2021-22  to 2025-26  under  the Development  of  Export Infrastructure  component.  For  the  Tiruchirappalli  district  of  Tamil  Nadu,  assistance  has  been provided  to  two  beneficiaries  in  the  same  period  under  Quality  Development  &  Market Development components. In addition, APEDA organized 8 Capacity building programmes for its  stakeholders in Tiruchirappalli district and 3 Capacity building programmes in Pudukkottai district, in the last five years including the current year.

The  Spices  Board  is  implementing  the  central  sector  scheme  'Sustainability  in  Spice Sector through Progressive, Innovative and Collaborative Interventions for Export Development (SPICED)',  aimed  at  export  promotion  of  spices  and  spice  products.  The  major  scheme components / sub-components for export promotion of spices include enhancing capacities for market  expansion,  trade  promotion,  product  &  market  development  and  branding  of  Indian

spices, technological and infrastructural interventions for processing of spices, setting up of in house laboratories, post harvest quality upgradation of spices, quality assurance for export etc.

The  scheme  is  implemented  across  India  including  the  State  of  Tamil  Nadu  and  the stakeholders  of  the  spice  sector  of  State  can  avail  assistance  under  the  SPICED  scheme.  No exporters  from  districts  of  Tiruchirappalli  and  Pudukottai  have  applied  for  availing  assistance under the Export Promotion Schemes of the Spices Board during the last five years.

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