Establishing an Export Value-chain of Watermelon to Dubai Market
140 / 398
Authors
-
E Sreenivasa Rao
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, India
-
M Pitchaimuthu
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, India
-
B Varalakshmi
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, India
-
Manjunathagowda D C
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, India
-
D V Sudhakar Rao
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru, India
Abstract
Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum and Nakai] is an important speciality crop accounting for seven percent of the agricultural area devoted to vegetable crops globally. The world watermelon harvested area is about 3.50 million hectares with a production of 117 million tonnes (FAO, 2017). Asia-Pacific accounts for 85% of this production (98.6 million tonnes). India has witnessed a watermelon revolution over the last two decades (2001-2019) with over 820% increase in production and the current production is pegged at 2.5 million tonnes (NHB, 2022). The article discusses the successful collaboration of ICAR-IIHR and a private company, Fit Fresh, in exporting watermelon from India to Dubai Market.
Downloads
Downloads
Submitted
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Indian Horticulture
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Complete copyright vests with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, who will have the right to enter into an agreement with any organization in India or abroad engaged in reprography, photocopying, storage and dissemination of information contained in it, and neither author nor his/her legal heirs will have any claims on royalty.
