India
Sparsh Khullar.
Director — Trade & Markets, India
Sparsh Khullar runs the AgroMax trade desk from India. The work is the commercial half of an export house: qualifying buyers, quoting against written specifications, drafting and holding the contract, and keeping the document set moving so that a shipment and its paperwork arrive as one thing rather than two.
The desk sits in India deliberately. It puts contracts and buyer correspondence on business hours that overlap Tokyo, Shanghai, Istanbul and the Gujarat hulling belt, while the seed is being bought at the farm gate in Nigeria. On the India route in particular that is less a convenience than the point.
Most of the compliance and contract research published on this site is his. That work follows one rule, which is worth stating because it is unusual in this trade: every limit is quoted with the instrument and date it comes from, and where a figure could not be verified against its primary source the guide says what to check rather than supplying a confident number.
What Sparsh works on
- 01Sales contracts and FOSFA terms — quality basis, sampling and analysis, arbitration
- 02Incoterms and the FOB Lagos basis, including what a CFR or CIF quotation does and does not include
- 03Destination compliance — EU, Japan and China limits traced to the regulation that sets them
- 04Specification drafting: purity, moisture, oil content, FFA, admixture and aflatoxin
- 05The India route — the Gujarat hulling trade, duty treatment and the grades it actually buys
Published guides
- Selling sesame into South Korea: the aT tender, the quota and the 630% tariff
28 September 2026—7 min read
- What sets the price of sesame seed
28 September 2026—7 min read
- Black sesame vs white sesame, and why black seed is something else
28 September 2026—5 min read
- Sesame in 29 languages: the names buyers and sellers use
28 September 2026—5 min read
- Sesame allergen labelling: what the EU, US, Canada, Australia, Japan and China require
28 September 2026—6 min read
- Indian vs Nigerian sesame: how a buyer should compare the two origins
28 September 2026—7 min read
- Sesame seed nutrition: what hulling changes
28 September 2026—6 min read
- Exporting sesame to China: Decree 248 is not the rule any more
11 September 2026—8 min read
- What we commit to, and how you check it
11 September 2026—7 min read
- Payment terms for Nigerian sesame: what we offer and why
10 September 2026—9 min read
- Sesame seeds for tahini and halva production
28 September 2026—10 min read
- Natural vs hulled sesame seeds: which grade fits your product
21 August 2026—9 min read
- Export documents for Nigerian sesame, and how to verify each one
20 August 2026—9 min read
- Crushing-grade sesame: oil content, FFA and what they cost you
20 August 2026—8 min read
- FOB Lagos, CFR and CIF: Incoterms for sesame buyers
20 August 2026—9 min read
- Selling Nigerian sesame into India
28 September 2026—7 min read
- How to vet a sesame exporter in Nigeria
13 August 2026—11 min read
- Nigerian sesame seed specifications, explained
28 September 2026—7 min read
- Aflatoxin, Salmonella and residue limits for sesame
28 September 2026—14 min read
- How to import sesame seeds from Nigeria
31 July 2026—8 min read
We byline a director only where that director has reviewed and approved the content. Where a guide states a regulatory limit, the instrument that sets it is named on the page so you can check it rather than take it on trust.
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