Question
What is Import Export? Highlight this in the context of Rajasthan.

Answer

Meaning of Import-Export:
When things bought from country or state it is called import and when goods are sold to other country or state, it is called export.
Everythings is produced in a specific physical and environmental conditions. Special natural resources and sometimes special technique is needed for this, which may not be available in every state. So some goods which are produced in abundance at a particular place are sold to other places, and where these are produced in less quantity they are bought from other places. This kind of exchange of goods is called trade.

Situation of Import-Export in Rajasthan:
The goods which are produced in our state, whether these are agricultural product, forest product or industrial produce, are sent from one place to another in the state. When one state trades with other state, then it is called inter state trade. Trade between one country with another country is called international trade.

Rajasthan is the leading producer of mustard and cluster beans (Gawar), carom seeds (ajwain), fenugreek, psyllium husk (isabgol), and wool. The state also has a major contribution in the production of cumin and cereal, soyabean, pulses and oilseeds, vegetables, garlic, oranges and milk. Some of the goods are sent out of the state in the natural form while some are sent out in processed form. Fruits, vegetables, dairy products are processed, which you use in the form of packed food and beverages.

In Rajasthan, sorghum (jawar) and pearl millet, oilseeds, raw yarn, deoiled seed cake (khal), marble and stone, bamboo, mustard oil and fabricated yam are exported mainly. Rajasthan is a sole supplier of these goods. Whereas rice, kerosene oil, mineral oil, electricity goods, machinery, transport equipments etc. are imported.

Many goods are also exported to other countries from Rajasthan. Cloth, precious stone and jewellery, marble stone, granite and mica, items, wool and woollen clothes, chemical and related products, handicarft, leather and leather goods, readymade clothes, engineering, agricultural and food products, mats and carpets, electronics and computer software etc are major itmes. Rajasthan is a leading producer of many itams and there are many possibilities for export, so the government has implemented many schemes for the augmentation of export. A two days training is given to entrepreneurs to start their own export trade.Apart horn this the state government has formulated the Rajasthan agro processing, agri-business, and agricultural export promotion policy in 2019, which makes provisions for exploring export possibilities of agro-processing, agricult ure-products and taking advantage of those opportunities. This policy motivates businessmen for export of agricultural pruduce from the state.

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