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LOK SABRA DEBATES (English Version) I~eadt , __ Series,_,:_ Vol.__ XXI,.;___ No. 40 F.'iday, May 7, 1993 Vaisakha 17, 1915 (Saka) LOK SABRA DEBATES (English Version) Sixth Session (Tenth Lok Sabha) (Vol. XXI contains Nos, 3/10";0) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI Price: Rs, 6,00 100000AL ENoiJsII PIlO' .... INCI.UIJI!D IN ENausiI VERSION AND OiucnNAL HINDI .... E'NNOS INa.UOI!D IN ilia VaIION WIU. IB TlRA11!D AS AtmIOlUTA11VB AND ..,.. nE TIANSl.AnoN n ......) CONTENTS [Tenth Series, Vol. XXI, Sixth Session. 199311915 (Saka)J No. 40, Friday, May7,1993Naisakha 17, 1915(Saka) CoLUMNS Oral Answers to Questions: 1-36 'StarredQuestion Nos. 9OHo906 Written Answers to Questions: 36-325 Starred Question Nos. 907 to 920 36-57 UnstarredQuestlon Nos. 7858 to 7862,7864 to 7894, 57-296 7896 to 7940, 7942 to 7946, 7948 to 7973 and 7975 to 7993 Papers Laid on the Table 32~333 Committee on Private Members Bill and Resolutions Minutes of Fourteenth to Twenty-first sittings- Laid Business ofthe House 334-337 Business AdviSOry Committee 337 Twenty Eighth Report -Adoptea Cede of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill 338-360 - As passed by Rajya Sabha Motion to consider Shri S. B. Chavan 338-339 'The Sign + marked'above the name of a Member indicates that the question was actually asked on the floor of the House by that Member. (ii) ShtiRameshwBrPatidBr Shri Mohan Singh (Deoria) 344-347 Shri Sriballav Panigrahi 347-349 Shri M."Ramanna Rai 349-351 Shri T ej Narayan Singh 351-354 Shri Santosh KumarGangwar Shri.SyedShahabuddin 355-357 Shri S. B. Chavan 357-359 Clause 2 and 1 Motion to Pass ShriS. B. Chavan Committee of Private Members' Bills and Resolutions Twenty First Report - Adopted Bills Introduced 361-362 Electropathy System of Medicine (Regulation) Bill -by Shri Vishweshwar Bhagat Central Secretariat Service Bill 361-362 -by Shri Ram Prakash Chaudhary High Court at Bombay (Establishment of a 362 permanent Bench Kolhapur) Bill -by Shri Udaysinghrao Gaikwad Railway Protection Force (Amendment) Bill 362-396 (Substitution of New Long Title for long title etc.) - . -by Shri Basudev Achariya Motion to consider Shri Devendra Prasad Yadav Shri Chitta 8asu Shri Oscar Fernandes Shri Surya Narayan Yadav 373-374 (iii) Shri Govinda Chandra Munda 374-376 Shri Vishwanath Shastri 376-378 Shri Vijay N. Pati! 378-379 Shri Ram Vilas Paswan 379-380 Shri Gulam Mohammad Khan 380-381 Shri S. M. Laljan Basha 381 Shri Peter G. Marbaniang 381-384 Shri C. K. Jaffer Sharief 384-388 Shri Basudeb Acharia 388-396 Motion to Withdraw ShriBasudebAcharia 396 Agriculture Workers (Minimum Wages and Walfare) Bill ~7-408 -by Shri Chandubhai Deshmukh Motion to consider Shri Krishan Out! Sultanpuri ~7-399 Shri MahadeepakSingh Shakya Shri Sivaji Patnaik 402-404 Shri Gopi Nath Gajapathi Shri Manjay Lal 405-406 Shri Virendra Singh 406-407 Statement by Minister 372 US action designating India as a Priority foreign country under its special 30 1 Legislation (-Shri pranab Mukherjee) . LOK SABHA DEBATES LOKSABHA (f) whether the Government have allowed the export oriented units engaged in these areas Friday. May 7, 19931Vaisakha 17,1915 to sell 50 p~rcent of their products in domestic (Saka) tariff areas; The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the Clock (g) if so, the details thereof; and [MR SPEAKER in the Chairj (h) the extent to which the above policy i:; likely to achieve the ~xport targets? ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS [English] [ Trans/ation] THEMINISTEROFSTATEINTHEMIN­ Export· Oriented Agricultural Policy. ISTRY OF CIVIL SUPPLIES. CONSUMERS AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION AND MINISTEROFSTATEINTHEMINISTRYOF • ,901, SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN: COMMERCE (SHRI KAMALUDDIN AHMED): SHRI BOLLA BULLI RAMAIAH: (a) to (h), A statement is laid on the Table of the House, Will the Ministerof COMMERCE be pleased to state: STATEMENT (a) whether the Government have an­ (a) to (c), (f) and (g), India has a natural nounced a new export oriented agricultural policy comparative advantage in agricultur~I exports, recently; Government has, therefore, decided to accord high priority to them, (b) if so, the details thereof and agricultural items and form products included in this policy; Inthe Export Import Policy 1992-97 special attention is being paid to the growth of exports in (c) the date from which this policy is being the agricultural sector. The establishment of implemented; Export Oriented Units (EOUS) in this sectori!; specially encouraged, Units engaged in agricul­ (d) whether any export targets have been ture, floriculture, horticulture. etc, Can now avail fixed for farm products during the Eighth Five of the benefits of duty-free imports even if they Year Plan; export only 5O%oftheirproduction, They cansell the remaining 50% in the domestic market as (e) if so, the details thereof. item and year­ against the limit of 25% forthe non-agricultural wise; sector. The definition of "capital goods" under 3 Oral Answers MAY7,1993 Oral Answers 4 the policy has been expanded to includecapitaJ from the negative list of imports so that they can goods used in agriculture and allied activities so now be freely imported without a license. that units engaged in this sectorcan avail of the Export Promotion capital Goods (EPCG) The Union Budget of 1993-94 has also Scheme for importing their equipment at a proposed a package of special incentives for concessional rate of duty. Furthermore, certain augmenting the export potential of the agricul­ inputs and materials required by the agricultural ture and allied sectors. such as edible wax for waxing fresh fruits and vegetables, "grape guard paper. dipping oil for (d), (e)&(h). Theexportprojectionsforthe treatment o! grapes 'etc. have been removed VIII plan are as follows:- (Rs. Croresat 1991-92prices) Item 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 2 3 4 5 6 A. Plantation Crops 1484 1529 1573 1666 (i.e.CoffeeITea) B. Marine Products 1492 1621 1700 1913 2077 C. Agricultural 5448 6749 7497 8321 commodities (like tobacco,oilcakes, spices, cashew Kemews, cotton, rice, meat, processed . foods, fruits and Vegetabjes,sugar,etc.) Total: 8424 9216 10002 11030 . 12064 The policy initiatives referred to above are metric ton of vegetables. Our country has high expected to give an imputs to agricultural ex­ potentiality for exporting fruit and other agricul­ ports and Government is confident that the tural products but the Government has always overall targetssetforthe VIII Plan period would igr10red it. The share of our agricultural products be achieved. in international trade is continuously decreasing . It has been reduced by one per cent and the Government says that it has adopted various [Translationj measures to boost agricultural export. If Gov­ ernment is taking various measures then why' SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN: Mr. Speaker, the Indian participation in wortdtrade is decreas­ Sir, India is the largest vegetable and fruit pro­ ing. Eartier, we used to export spices, tea, coffee ducing country in theworld, but I am sorry to say etc .... that vegetables worth Rs. 400 crore are dam­ aged every year. Last year the country had orari' ,~~ 280 metric ton of fruits and 580 Iakh MR. SPEAKER: Paswanji, not like that 5 OraJADswers VAISAKHA 17,1915 (SAKA) Ora/Answers 6 SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN: Mr. Speaker nismthroughsmallfarmell!andagro-business. Sir, I am comingtothe point...... consortia, through which the interaction with the credit institutions, technical institutions li<e area MR. SPEAKER: You are not allowed to scientific organisations and laboratories, pri· make aspet3Ch. vatecorporate sector, Govemment agencies andthefarmers themselves being organised in SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN: All right. India consortia can provide the best harvesting tech­ wasnumberoneintheexportoftheseilemsbut noIogytothefarmerssothattheshelflifeof~r todaywearenotinthatposilion. Aspertheorder products is increased and also accessto market of the HQnbIe Speaker I wouIdh to knowfrom ensures better remunerative prices for their the honourable Ministerwhetherit isa fact that products. bigfarmersandtradersaretikelytobenefitfrom this new export policy and not the small farm· In respect of reduction in share of the ers? Hso, the measures likely to betaken bythe overall export basket, obviously with the grow· . Govemmentto ensure that the benefit of this ingindustrialisation and having a larger share in pqlicy also reaches the small farmers. Sec· the basket of export for manufactured items, the ondy..... comparatiYeshare would come clown andthat is not discouraging in that sense. But, I do agree MR. SPEAK,ER: If you go on asking such thatthere is animmense potentia1ity tor expand­ questions, you win not get the reply. Youshould ing our share in overall agricultural ex~rt. askonesupplementaryrelatingtothisquestion. You wiIInot get the reply of your question in this [ Translation] manner. CHHEDI PASWAN: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my· SHRI CHHEDI-PASWAN: All right Mr. secondsupplementary is whether it is a fact that SpeakerSir, so far as the part (b) of my question duetolackofcoordination between the Ministry is concemed, I would like to ask whether the of Food and Ministry of Commerce, the import Govemment has made a study regarding the of agricultural products is adversely affected; if tikely impact of Dunkel proposals on the export so the steps the Govemment is going to take to of agricultural products, if so, the details ensurepropercoordination among various Min­ thereof? istries? In part connection with (b) of this ques­ tion I would like to know whether it is a fact that [Eng/ish] thetargetfixed for export of agricultural products for ~ 992-93 could not be achieved; if so, the THE MINISTEROFCOMMERCE (SHRI details thereof? . PRANABMUKHERJEE):Sir,sofarasthefirst part of the hon. Member's question is con· [Eng/ish] cerned, it is correct that we have a high poten' tialityfor exporting fruits andvegetables. In fact, SHRI PRANAB MUKHERJEE: Sir, there India is the second largest fruit and vegetable is no lack of coordination between the various producer after Brazil and China respectively. In Ministries and the Govemment is an integrated the new Policy, not new exactly· we have one.
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