The draft strategy for boosting agricultural exports, put out by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) for public comments, has arrived at an appropriate time. Over the last three years, farm exports have been falling -- from $42.9 billion in 2013-14 to $33.4 billion in 2016-17 -- and there is an urgent need to stop the slide. This trend is worrisome because India has transformed from a deficit to a surplus country in many agricultural commodities and it needs new markets for its surplus produce. The want of export outlets is, in turn, depressing local prices