1. Introduction

The Agri Trade Junction Portal of APEDA has been developed to provide all relevant information on international trade on APEDA products in a single place to Indian exporters. Apart from this, it shall serve as a single point meeting place for exporters and importers online. Exporters can receive offers and trade enquires online. Importers can float their demand and queries online.

2. Benefits

This facility shall provide the following benefits to exporters:

• Extensive information on the sourcing countries, their trade partners, products imported, trade statistics, regulations, market information, major importers, etc., in a single place.
• Publishing of products of exporters and their availability for the view of importers.
• Identify potential importers.

This shall also extend the following benefits to the importers:

• Information about APEDA products, Current markets, etc.,
• Post their enquiries online to a large number of Indian exporters from a single place

Hence this online facility will provide all the necessary information in a single place and help the Indian Exporters take 'Informed Decisions' and respond faster to the international market demands. This is expected to boost the existing promotional efforts of APEDA to increase competitiveness of Indian produce in the global market and increase exports. The complete facility has been designed to be database driven to provide extensive search and analysis facilities to the exporters, importers and other visitors.