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1. The US proposals to impose a 27 per cent tariff on Indian products will have a mixed impact on the Indian agriculture sector, including allied ones such as fisheries. The proposals brought smiles to the faces of rice and cashew exporters, but left the seafood and gherkin exporters worried.
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2. Amul, which annually exports ₹1,000 crore worth of dairy products across the globe, is rubbing its hands in glee. Though the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on India and other countries by the Trump administration is expected to make Amul products sold in the US expensive.
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3. India, the world’s largest exporter of honey to the US, may face a duty disadvantage, potentially allowing other competing countries such as Argentina, New Zealand and the UK to take advantage, since China, the second largest exporter too, has a higher tariff.
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4. The commodities market has been rocked by US President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs announcement, with all commodity sub-asset classes ending in the red on Friday.
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5. The International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has set its sights on deploying artificial intelligence, machine learning and large language models (LLMs) to improve the quality of the output.
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6. In the last 2-3 years, human-wildlife conflicts bordering forest areas have been threatening the farming community in Kerala with crop damage, revenue drop, declining productivity and loss of lives.
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Published on April 5, 2025
