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Establishing an Export Value-chain of Watermelon to Dubai Market

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Title Establishing an Export Value-chain of Watermelon to Dubai Market
 
Creator Rao, E Sreenivasa
Pitchaimuthu, M
Varalakshmi, B
D C, Manjunathagowda
Rao, D V Sudhakar
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher Indian Council of Agriclutural Research
 
Date 2024-04-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IndHort/article/view/148629
 
Source Indian Horticulture; Vol. 69 No. 2 (2024); 39-40
0019-4875
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IndHort/article/view/148629/54401
 
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