India has been one of the major suppliers of Animal Health products to the world, but still there are lot of opportunities for Indian manufacturers to attain good share in exports of Animal Health products. In International market, Indian products are considered to be quality products at an affordable cost unlike Americans and Europeans where the quality is there, but with huge price whereas the Chinese products with low quality and low price.

In order to increase the exports of Animal Health products from India INFAH has taken a major initiative with Ministry of Agriculture and CDSCO.

To focus more on Animal Health products INFAH would like to set up an organization like Pharmexcil with the support from Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Commerce and Industries. There are many Human pharmaceutical manufacturers who are benefiting from government policies through Pharmexcil. If Animal Health Industry can get the same support from government through a separately focused Export Promotion Council, it can serve better to our Country.

Below are some of the schemes that INFAH has proposed to support its members.

• Marketing Development Assistance (MDA Scheme) – Under this scheme, Government supports the manufacturers to participate in trade delegations, Buyer-Seller Meetings, fairs and exhibitions abroad to explore new markets for export of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products.
• Market Access Initiative (MAI) Scheme:Under this scheme government can support the exporters in various ways in order to promote the exports, some of them are underlined below.
  1. Product Registration Reimbursement –Patent Charges Reimbursement
  2. Visit of foreign regulators reimbursement
  3. Opening of Showrooms, Warehouses and Marketing Offices abroad and display in International Departmental Stores
  4. Publicity Campaign and Cataloguing
  5. Research and Product Development
  6. Capacity building for upgradation of quality
  7. Capacity building of exporters
• Veterinary Pharmaceutical Promotion and Development Scheme: Government / Academic bodies, National/State level industries Associations should be eligible to avail assistance under this sub-scheme for organizing training programmes / organize conventions, exhibitions related to Animal Health Industry.
• Pharmaceutical Technology Upgradation Assistance Scheme:Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) are eligible to avail interest subvention for the purpose of technology / infrastructure development to upgrade to the standards of WHO GMP. This is very important to veterinary manufacturers as most of the veterinary manufacturers are small scale manufacturers and if they can upgrade their facilities at WHO GMP Level, it will increase the exports and quality of Indian products.

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