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Some specific requirements for the export of vegetables
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Vegetable Having Export Potential: The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has identified traditional vegetables like onion, potato, okra, bitter gourd, chilli and non-traditional vegetables like asparagus, celery, sweet pepper, sweet corn, baby corn, green peas, French bean, cucumber and gherkin and cherry tomato having good export potential. Among other vegetables, potato, okra, tomato, baby corn, cucumber & gherkins, chillies, French beans, capsicum, bitter gourd & bottle gourd are being exported. Vegetables are also being exported in processed form. The total export of vegetables in processed form is over Rs. 231 crores annually.
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Importing Countries: Onions and traditional vegetables are being exported to Malaysia, Singapore, Gulf Countries, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal. Non¬traditional vegetables are exported to European countries and Australia in addition to Gulf countries and South East Asian countries. Onions and garlic are transported by ships and other vegetables by air. Kuwait Airways, Saudi Airways, Air India and TWA are the important airlines, which transport vegetables.
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Variety and Quality Requirement: The requirement of foreign markets in terms of varieties and qualities differ from domestic requirements. The requirement also differs between different foreign markets. European markets, Japan, Australia, USA etc., require different qualities and varieties than Gulf countries and South East Asian countries. For example, in case of onion, European and Japanese markets require yellow/brown coloured mild pungent onions of big size, whereas, gulf countries and South East Asian countries require light red to dark red coloured strong pungent onions of varying sizes. South East Asian countries and Sri Lanka also demand small rose and multiplier onions.
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Parbhani Kranti, Arka Anamika, Varsha hybrid, Varsha Uphar varieties of okra; Awsari, Panvel, G 4 and Pusa Jwala varieties of chilli; Pusa Navbahar variety of cluster bean; Contender, Premier, Tweet Wonder, Astrel and Monel varieties of French bean; Varad bottlegourd, MBTH-1 bittergourd, Agrifound Dark Red, Agrifound Light Red, Arka Niketan, Baswant 780 and N-2-4-1 varieties of common big onion in red types, Granex 33, Spanish Brown, Tana F-1 in yellow types, Agrifound Rose, Arka Bindu in small rose type, Agrifound Red, CO, & CO4 in multiplier type of onion; Sugarbaby in watermelon; Great Lake in Lettuce; Nantes and Zino Carrot; Agrifound Parvati & G-282 in garlic are some of varieties of different crops, which are in good demand. Some of the specific requirements of size, colour, shape etc., are given in Table 2.
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