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Article: Why do Indian farm exports to EU suffer?
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- October 12, 2006
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Helsinki, Oct 12 -- Indian agricultural exports to the European Union suffer because of the 25-nation bloc's stringent insistence on highest standards of quality.
The qualitative benchmarks are such that many Indian exporters and also farmers are unable to meet them.
The EU has rejected large consignments of hot chilli powder, red chilli crushed, hot chilli pepper, ground chilli, curry powder, south Indian curry powder, tandoori masala, spice mix, chilli sauce, and spices containing chilli powder and a variety of other inputs, including dried apricots.
Some chilli products were rejected due to the presence of colour Sudan 1 and aflotoxins, some due to the presence of sulphur dioxide. Grapes ...