Overview
- The Directorate General of Foreign Trade issued the authorization on December 30 via an official notification.
- Exports are conditional on the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority's provisions and separately prescribed modalities.
- APEDA will set the detailed procedures that will govern how exporters qualify and apply to ship organic sugar.
- The permission applies to sugar produced to organic standards using cane grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.
- News outlets reported the policy based on the DGFT notification carried by PTI.