First consignment of Nagpur oranges was flagged off to Dubai on February 13, 2020 from Vashi, Navi Mumbai.
Facts
- Total 1500 crates were loaded in the refrigerated container from Vanguard Health Care (VHT) facility.
- Nagpur mandarin in one of the best mandarins in the world. Production of this fruit crop in central and western part of India is increasing every year.
- Mrig crop (monsoon blossom), which matures in February – March, has great potential for export since arrivals of mandarin fruit in international market are less during this period.
- According to Maharashtra State Agriculture Department 40 lakh hectare. land is under orange cultivation in Nagpur District and major orange growing pockets are Warud, Katol, Saoner, Kalameshwar and Narkhed in Nagpur and Amravati districts.
- In the whole region only one variety Nagpur Mandarin is grown.
- For the implementation of the Agriculture Export Policy, (AEP) Nagpur District is being developed as a cluster for Nagpur Orange by APEDA.
- The APEDA officer in Mumbai has been nominated as a nodal officer for implementation of AEP and cluster development of Nagpur orange.
The International Trade in 2018 for orange was USD 10183 million. India produced 8781 thousand tons of orange in 2018-19 (orange includes Mandarin, clementine).
