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Grape (Vitis sp.) belonging to Family Vitaceae is a commercially important fruit crop of India.  It is a temperate crop which has got adapted to sub-tropical climate of peninsular India. It is a climbing vine which has thin and smooth shiny leaves with 3,5,or 7 lobes. The vines produce round or oval berries with edible skin that adhere to the berries.

BOTANICAL NAME : Vitis vinifera FAMILY : Vitaceae

ORIGIN : Central Asia (Region between Black sea and Caucasian sea)

MAJOR PRODUCING STATES/DISTRICTS IN INDIA :

1) Maharashtra (Nashik, Sangli, Solapur, Pune, Osmanabad etc.)

2) Karnataka (Bijapur, Chikballapur, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bangalore Rural etc.)

3) Tamil Nadu (Theni, Dindigul, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Erode etc.)

Total Area in India: 139 Th Ha (2017-18).

Total Production in India: 2920 Th MT (2017-18).

MAJOR COMMERCIAL VARIETIES:

 

VARIETIES

Coloured seeded

Bangalore Blue, Gulbi(Muscat)

 

Coloured seedless

Beauty Seedless and Sharad Seedless, Flame Seedless, Manjri Naveen

 

White seeded

Anab-e-Shahi, Dilkhush(clone of Anab-e-Shahi)

 

White seedless

Perlette, Pusa Seedless, Thompson Seedless and its clones Tas-a-Ganesh, Sonaka, Kishmish Rozavis White and Manik Chaman

STORAGE CONDITIONS:

Temperature : 0-1ËšC ; Relative Humidity : 90-95%; Storage Period : 5-12 weeks.

SENSIBILITY TO: Freezing

PEAK HARVESTING SEASON:

1) Maharashtra : March, April, May

2) Karnataka : March, April and November

3) Tamil Nadu : May and November

EXPORT FROM INDIA (2018-19): India exported 246133.79 MT Grapes of 334.79 US$ Mill.

MAJOR EXPORT DESTINATIONS (2018-19): Netherland, Russia, U K, Bangladesh Pr, Germany and U Arab Emts.

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