Press Conference of Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi

During a press conference, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that India’s goods exports in 2021-22 were a record $418 billion, 40% more than the previous year and 33% from the pre-pandemic levels of 2019-20. is more.

Engineering goods exports increased by a record $111 billion, of which about $16 billion was sent to the US alone.

While earlier exports were dominated by neighboring and ASEAN countries, this year saw a significant jump in exports to developed countries like US, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, Belgium and Germany.

Shri Goyal said that March 2022 also recorded the highest ever monthly exports of over $40 billion.

Shri Goyal said, “The growth has happened in those sectors which have small enterprises and agriculture sector. I congratulate the farmers for increasing their productivity that wheat exports increased from 2 lakh tonnes in 2019-20 to 21.55 lakh last year. Tonnes and it has increased to over 7 million tonnes in 2021-22.

The Union Minister said, “Similar growth has been witnessed in jute products, textiles, leather, gems and jewelery and other labour-intensive sectors. We work hard to increase the capacity of MSMEs and agriculture sector to increase exports and generate employment.” Will continue to do

“Even pandemic like COVID-19 and war like situation has not stopped our export target for the year. When there is decisive leadership of leader like PM Narendra Modi with vision of whole government and whole country , then it is reflected in these results.”

“We will continue to export wheat on a large scale to countries affected by conflict in Ukraine and Russia (major global wheat suppliers) and expect to comfortably export 1 million tonnes of wheat this year,” he said.

Commerce Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam said, “35 lakh tonnes of wheat has been exported to Bangladesh largely through the Petrapole land border.”