“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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