APEDA signs MoU with AFC India Ltd and NCUI, Delhi

Current Context: The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has entered into an MoU with AFC India Limited and National

 

Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), Delhi.

• The MoU is signed to uplift the agriculture and allied sectors in order to bring better value to the stakeholders.
• The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is a part of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
• APEDA has taken an initiative to sign this MoU in order to bring together inherent professionals and experts associated with various organisations and institutions so that they can work and bring value to the stakeholders by addressing them with appropriate and prompt solutions which will led to the development of agriculture and its export and thus to achieve objective framed under Agri Export Policy of GOI.
• AFC India Limited will help in guiding technology usage for organic production systems and chemical or residue-free production system. It will act as a supporting role for Common Processing Centers by following the rules set by APEDA in respect to international market requirements.
• AFC India Limited will from the ground level implementation of all export-oriented activities notified in Agri Export Policy of GOI.
• All the trio entities will support the entire value chain system until the clusters and value chain becomes self-sufficient.
• The APEDA, AFC India Ltd and NCUI will work to develop pre-production, production, post-harvesting, primary as well as secondary processing, transportation in order to boost stakeholders and farmers also.

Question: 

Q.1 With whom Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has signed MoU to uplift the agriculture and allied sectors in order to bring better value to the stakeholders?
a. AFC India Limited
b. Netafim Agriculture Financing Agency Pvt ltd
c. National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI)
d. Both (a) and (c)