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Tripura starts exporting jackfruits to Dubai
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 May, 2021
After exporting its juicy pineapples and lemons to Dubai, Tripura on Friday began sending jackfruit to the UK, officials said.
Tripura
Horticulture Department Director Dr Fanibhusan Jamatia said that
through the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development
Authority, under the Union Commerce and Industry Ministry, 300 pieces
(1,200 kg) of jackfruits were flown to London from Delhi.
"A
Guwahati-based export agency through the Tripura Horticulture Department
collected the jackfruits from the farmers in Melaghar (in western
Tripura's Sepahijala district) and on Thursday, shipped them to Delhi,"
Jamatia told IANS.
He said that this is a trial consignment and
if the exotic produce got the market abroad, more such exports were
expected to take place.
Tripura Agriculture and Tourism Minister
Pranajit Singha Roy, in a tweet, said: "England to get a taste of
Tripura's sweet jackfruits. First time Tripura is exporting jackfruit
that has huge potential. First consignment already shipped. After the
state's queen pineapples now jackfruits are also in the export list.
Kudos to our Farmers, Agriculture & Horticulture Dept."
The
procurement agency has paid Rs 30 for each jackfruit to the farmers. The
fruit, which has spiky outer green skin jackfruits, are highly
nutritious and are grown in Tripura and other northeastern states
abundantly.
The seasonal fruit is also smuggled to neighbouring Bangladesh in absence of a proper trading system.
Tripura
last year exported exotic and juicy Queen variety of pineapple and
lemons to Dubai and Bangladesh. A Horticulture Department official said
many other countries, including Israel and Bahrain, had expressed
willingness to import pineapple from Tripura.
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