Spurt in pepper exports to Russia rings alarm bell
The pepper market here is agog with rumours that a sizeable chunk of black pepper shipped to Russia are finding its way to other countries like the US, Great Britan and other European countries leaving the origin country high and dry. However, leading exporters in Kochi have categorically ruled out such a possibility and underlined that "we see our shipments in Moscow".

`Diamond exports may cross $5.5 billion'
Diamonds have got back its lost glitter in world markets with the domestic diamond cutting sector industry poised for a big push taking exports to an all-time high this fiscal year.

First-half export earnings in seafoods decline sharply
Hit hard by the vagaries of the Japanese market and tight availability of raw materials availability have led to a drastic fall in the export earnings of the seafood industry for the first half of the current fiscal. This is despite a marginal rise in quantity of products exported during April-September compared with the same period of the previous year.


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