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Panama s watermelon exports increased by more than 12% in the first two months of 2021
Panamanian watermelon exports in the first two months of 2021 increased by 12.4% over the same period of the previous year and had a FOB value of 1.72 million dollars.
Panama sent more than half of the fruit to the Netherlands (57.6%), its main destination market. It was followed by the United Kingdom (30.1%), Spain (4.9%), the United States (4.4%), and Belgium (3.0%).
These figures confirm a positive trend in fruit shipments in 2021. In 2020, watermelon exports had a 16.8% year-on-year drop and reached a total value of 10.2 million dollars. This reduction in watermelon exports was influenced by several factors. The most outstanding factors were climate change and the high rainfall that affected the normal development of the production cycle until January. Other factors included the decrease in watermelon purchases in some European markets, in the context of the weakening of world trade; and the
New Industrial Policy will create 20 lakh jobs in 5 years: Minister Shettar
January 20, 2021
Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka’s New Industrial Policy has aimed at attracting Rs. 5 lakh crore investments that could create employment for 20 lakh people by 2025, said Large and Medium Scale Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar here yesterday.
Releasing the New Industrial Policy 2020-25 handbook here, Shettar said that the State Government has decided to focus more on industrially backward districts, Tier-II and Tier-III cities. Impetus had been given mainly on automobile and spare parts, pharmaceutical, medical and engineering equipment, knowledge-based industries, logistics, renewable energy, aerospace, defence and electric vehicle manufacturing.
To help this, Sec. 79 A and B section in Land Reforms Act had been scrapped to attract more investment in Karnataka. Provision had been made for the business entrepreneurs to directly deal with farmers to buy 54 acres.