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India is world's top exporter of cucumber and gherkins


India has emerged as the largest exporter of gherkins in the world with outbound shipments worth $114 million from April-October 2021 compared to $200 million of exports in full FY21.

“India has exported cucumber and gherkins to the tune of 1,23,846 metric tonne,” commerce and industry ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

India has crossed the $200 million mark of export of agricultural processed product, – pickling cucumber, which is globally referred as gherkins or cornichons, in the last financial year, it said.

In 2020-21, India had shipped 2,23,515 metric tonne of cucumber and gherkins with a value of $223 million.

Gherkins are exported under two categories-cucumbers and gherkins, which are prepared and preserved by vinegar or acetic acid and those which are provisionally preserved.

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