{"id":23135,"date":"2025-09-02T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23135"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:53:22","slug":"grapes-with-long-shelf-life-to-expand-indias-global-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/09\/02\/grapes-with-long-shelf-life-to-expand-indias-global-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Grapes with long shelf life to expand India\u2019s global reach\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Corporate India has introduced new long life grapes varieties, connecting a successful 2024-25 global\u00a0export campaign to 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sangle Agro Processing Pvt Ltd\u2019s director Sajaram Sangle\u00a0cites\u00a0that some new cultivars can\u00a0withstand 60 transit days<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sangle identifies Canada and the United States as some of the virgin targets for the seedless types now under trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The director isolates long shelf cultivars, namely Ivory, Timco, Timpson and Allison as readying for rollout next season. He recounts of their dynamism in every way, from weather resilience to low perishability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the company is charting North American waters with the above quadruple, sights still remain on the traditional market of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe absorbs India\u2019s conventional\u00a0vitis vinifera<\/em><\/u><\/em><\/a>\u00a0range, from Thompson Seedless to Sonaka grapes – albeit logistics have been reducing penetration lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But since Europe\u2019s supermarkets like offering a wide range, introducing the newest cultivars is a bankable opportunity for India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These opportunities are not limited to the West, either. In fact, the 2024-25 season’s corporate shipments to Asia, Africa (via Kenya) and southeast Asia amounted to 2,500 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sangle expects the corporate volume to hit 3,500 tonnes with expansion in Kenya opening the way into African destinations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mending of Europe\u2019s logistics and the pioneering of exports to North America solidifies the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More so, the Far East remains a darling of India\u2019s grapes, with Sonaka and Thompson Seedless quite popular in China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Embassy of India<\/u><\/a> in Beijing, China absorbs around 2% of grapes from India, as of 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perpetual Variety Hunt<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The strong demand in the Far East and elsewhere underpins the quality of local grapes, which breeders keep reinventing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2024, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University<\/u><\/a> in south India bred multiple field and greenhouse grapes with export appeal. Some of these included A-18, Red Globe, Maratha Seedless and Krishna seedless, all coloured types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prices of new varieties are another major score because their low production costs foster affordability vis-\u00e1-vis expensive foreign competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of August 29, 2025, wholesale grapes<\/u><\/a> on the Bay of Bengal were costing 15,000-16,000 rupees ($170.10-181.44) a quintal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, the promotion of affordable novel varieties will continue to make subcontinental grapes gather more global appeal. To learn extra bits on the south Asia country\u2019s grape sector, peruse the below statistics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India Table Grapes <\/strong>Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The total production of table grapes in India amounts to 3.4 million tonnes<\/u><\/a> per year (2022), the 7th<\/sup> highest worldwide. Thanks to dedication towards plant genetics,  production grew steadily between 2020 and 2023, per the following FAOSTAT<\/u><\/a>\u2019s table:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>3.74 million <\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>3.401 million<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>3.358 million<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>3.181 million<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig:\u00a0\u00a0Grapes production in India, 2020-23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like production, the cultivated area of table grapes expanded exponentially in the 2020-23 timeline. It rose from 150,000 hectares <\/u><\/a>(ha) in 2020 to 155,000 ha a year later and then soared to 163,000 ha in 2022. In 2023, farmers added 6K more hectares to round up 169,000 ha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the production largesse, India exports\u00a0$381.3 million<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2024) worth of table grapes annually. This value represents around 3.6% of the global grapes trade and help India rank 10th<\/sup>\u00a0in export rankings. By virtue of having a northerly location, the country exports during the late months of the year. This makes it able to compete with the southern hemisphere\u2019s market leaders like South Africa, Peru and Chile.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top destination for fresh grapes from India is the Netherlands at 79,335.3 tonnes, as of 2023, according to the World Bank<\/u><\/a>. Following suit is the UK (14,920.2 tonnes) while the UAE (21,552.8 tonnes) and Bangladesh (68,920.8 tonnes) claim the top 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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