date:Jun 12, 2016
top export destinations are Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE and Kuwait, he said.
As per the first advance estimates of the ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare, banana is cultivated on 836,000 hectares with a production of 29.89 million tonnes in 2015-16 in India. The major growing states are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has an ambitious plan to export Indian-grown bananas globally by creatin