The government of India established the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) in 1985. The prime objective of this establishment was expansion and elevation of export of agricultural products. Further, the organization replaced the functions of financial assistance and providing a solution to queries that were under the guidance of the Processed Food Export Promotion Council (PFEPC). The organization is responsible to upgrade and expand of agricultural product exports. Thereby, their prime functions consist of providing a solution to all the export-related from the production until packaging and exporting. Essentially begins with promoting in-demand oriented cultivation, following which criteria for the scheduled products are set. Subsequently, the packaging, standards set for quality of the goods, Trade Leads and data for export promotion. Besides this, APEDA provides training, financial assistance in warehousing and product manufacturing. It has head office in New Delhi, Regional Offices-Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Guwahati and Virtual Offices in Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Bhubaneshwar (Orissa), Srinagar (J&K), Chandigarh, Imphal (Manipur), Agartala (tripura), Kohima (Nagaland), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Raipur (Chattisgarh), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh),Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Panaji (Goa).
The export of agricultural products is done under the ambit of the Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority known as APEDA. It is a government-driven entity that came into existence in 1985. Its primary objective of APEDA is to facilitate information, standards, and financial assistance to the exporters of the scheduled product. Such activities were executed to boost the development and promotion of such products. Schedule products are of the special category of product that comes under the APEDA Act. The registration under APEDA Act is compulsory for all the business owners who were looking to export these products outside India. In this brief write-up, we will pay attention to the documents required for the APEDA Registration. Documentation play is a vital role in any registration process or government license. If your documents are not up to the mark then there is no point authority can approve your request. Thus; you need to pay extra attention to the accuracy of the information that you were going to embed in your documents.