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India has emerged as the\u00a0<\/span>largest exporter<\/span><\/b>\u00a0of gherkins in the world.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pickling cucumber is globally referred as\u00a0<\/span>gherkins or cornichons<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gherkins are exported under two categories — cucumbers and gherkins, which are prepared and preserved by vinegar or acetic acid and cucumbers and gherkins, which are provisionally preserved.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority\u00a0<\/span>(APEDA)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0undertook a series of initiatives in infrastructure development, product promotion in the global market and adherence to food safety management system in processing units.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It also provided financial assistance for development of infrastructure and enhancing quality of processed gherkins, promotion of products in the international market and implementation of food safety management systems in the processing units.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gherkin cultivation, processing and exports started in India in\u00a0<\/span>Karnataka<\/span><\/b>\u00a0and later extended to the neighbouring states of\u00a0<\/span>Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nearly\u00a0<\/span>15% production of the world\u2019s<\/span><\/b>\u00a0gherkin requirement is grown\u00a0<\/span>in India.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gherkin industry plays a key role in the creation of\u00a0<\/span>rural employment.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source-<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span>\u00a0\u201c<\/span><\/b>India emerges as largest exporters of cucumber and gherkins in the world<\/span><\/b>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/b>published in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>PIB<\/span>\u00a0on 23rd Jan 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news?\u00a0 India has emerged as the\u00a0largest exporter\u00a0of gherkins in the world.\u00a0\u00a0 What are gherkins?\u00a0 Pickling cucumber is globally referred as\u00a0gherkins or cornichons.\u00a0 Gherkins are exported under two categories — cucumbers and gherkins, which are prepared and preserved by vinegar or acetic acid and cucumbers and gherkins, which are provisionally preserved.\u00a0 How was… Continue reading \u201cIndia emerges as largest exporters of cucumber and gherkins in the world\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-164327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700202240},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are gherkins?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
How was this achieved?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
Where are Gherkins grown in India?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n