Budget 2025 Expectations: Special package on the cards for commodity exports?

Budget Expectations: The Union Budget 2025-26 is apt to absorption connected steps to beforehand the country's commodity exports, with a imaginable peculiar fiscal bundle for this area, sources told Zee Business. 

The Budget whitethorn incorporate a peculiar Budget for commodities specified arsenic rubber, tea, java and cardamom, arsenic good arsenic the Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), they said. 

APEDA is the nationalist bureau liable for promoting and processing cultivation and processed nutrient merchandise exports. One of its superior tasks is to boost the country's planetary cultivation trade. 

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has sought astir Rs 9,000 crore for 5 years from the Ministry of Finance. 

The Budget whitethorn see important steps including a practice money for Darjeeling beverage and a peculiar money for APEDA to alteration it to beforehand specified exports, said the sources. 

Additional measures could see a money for states to enactment export facilities, a dedicated money for export-related infra, and different money aimed astatine supporting rubber farming, they said.