India, July 9 -- Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal, while addressing the ICC: Krishi Vikram Thematic Session in New Delhi today, said that India's agriculture and fisheries exports have now reached Rs.4.5 lakh crore. He added that agricultural exports have the potential to grow to Rs.20 lakh crore, provided the country strengthens food processing and improves the quality of branding and packaging.

Shri Goyal shared that India's agricultural export basket is expanding with new items such as litchi, pineapple, bottle gourd, and jamun-products which were not traditionally exported-now reaching international markets. He mentioned that jamun was recently exported to the UK, and litchis from Punjab were exported to Doha...