India's fruit and vegetable exports surge 47.3% in last 5 years

The fiscal assistance schemes of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) person helped India's effect and rootlike exports surge by 47.3 per cent successful the past 5 years, according to the government.

According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the exports of caller fruits and vegetables reached 123 countries successful FY2023-24.

In the past 3 years, Indian caller nutrient entered 17 caller markets, immoderate of which are Brazil, Georgia, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, Czech Republic, Uganda and Ghana, etc.

This has been achieved done a big of measures specified arsenic information successful planetary commercialized fairs, actively pursuing marketplace entree negotiations and organising purchaser seller meets, etc, according to the ministry.

The Department of Commerce, done APEDA, provides fiscal assistance to its subordinate exporters of APEDA from crossed the country, for export promotion of its Scheduled products, including for fruits and vegetables, nether Agriculture and Processed Foods Export Promotion Scheme of APEDA for the 15th Finance Commission Cycle (2021-22 to 2025-26).

“As a effect of these initiatives, determination has been a maturation of 47.3 per cent successful the measurement of exports of fruits and vegetables betwixt the play 2019-20 to 2023-24,” the ministry informed.

The maturation successful presumption of worth successful the past 5 years stands astatine 41.50 per cent.

The large states producing fruits and vegetables are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Karnataka.

The Department of Commerce is moving successful adjacent coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare successful prioritising agriculture products for marketplace entree negotiations to scope caller markets. As a result, India has achieved caller marketplace entree successful respective commodities successful the past 3 years.

There are Indian potatoes and onions successful Serbia; babe maize and caller banana successful Canada; pomegranate arils successful Australia, USA, Serbia and New Zealand; and full pomegranates successful Australia via irradiation treatment.