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TIRUCHY: While the pandemic pulled down almost every business last year, it pushed up banana exports - by a good 35 per cent. As domestic demand for fresh fruits grew, so did the international requirement. After a few initial months of disrupted logistics, export of fruits grew 25-35 per cent, say top exporters.
While the export of fresh fruits increased from 3 lakh metric tons in 2017-2018 to 5.07 lakh metric tons in 2020-2021, banana exports shot up from 1.01 lakh metric tons in 2018 to 1.95 lakh metric tons in 2020, says data gathered from the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA).
New Variety Of Banana Made In Maharashtraâs Jalgaon, To Benefit Planters With Significant Reduction In Crop Damages
A banana plantation worker.
The Banana Research Centre (BRC) in Jalgaon which functions under the Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV) has come up with a new kind of banana plantation to reduce the defects of the current variety grown by the farmers, reports
The Times Of India.
The new variety of banana is made after seven years of extensive research and after nearly two decades banana growers will get access to a new variety. It is named as âPhule Prideâ.
âBoth the state government and the Central sub-committee on crop standard, notification and release of new variety of horticulture crops have recognised and notified this new variety,â said MPKVâs senior horticulture scientist Nazimuddin Shaikh.
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