New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- With export diversification at the top of India's trade agenda, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal is set to embark on a three-nation tour in October-Singapore, Qatar and South Africa-to push Indian goods into new markets and also advance talks on the long-pending India-European Union (EU) free trade agreement on the sidelines, two senior government officials said.

Goyal will travel to Singapore in the first week of the month, followed by Qatar, and then South Africa for the G20 trade ministers' meeting.

On the sidelines of the G20 meeting, the minister is expected to meet EU's trade commissioner Maros Šefčovič to take forward the discussions on the FTA, said the first official cited above. ...