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Totapuri mangoes boost fresh fruit exports
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Thursday, 20 August, 2026, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Nandita Vijayasimha, Bengaluru
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Karnataka’s Totapuri mangoes are playing a significant role in boosting India’s fresh-fruit exports. Known for their distinctive shape, tangy flavour and versatility, Totapuri mangoes are increasingly finding markets abroad. Rising demand, improved post-harvest handling and better export infrastructure are helping Indian growers and exporters expand their reach, strengthening Karnataka’s position in India’s growing fresh-fruit export sector.
There has been a huge response from the growers of Totapuri mangoes to the Union government’s support price under the Market Intervention Price Scheme announced on June 25, this year. The eligible farmers
The State Horticulture Department, in collaboration with the State Mango Growers Development Board, is supporting Totapuri mango growers through a range of measures aimed at addressing seasonal oversupply and price fluctuations.
These initiatives include implementing a price-support scheme, facilitating farmer registration and coordinating export activities to improve market access. In the key mango-growing districts of Kolar and Chikkaballapur, farmers are being registered through the NeML (National e-Markets Limited) platform to enable their participation in the Price Deficiency Payment Scheme, which seeks to provide financial support when market prices fall below the prescribed threshold.
A massive share is utilized for pulp, purée, and concentrates rather than raw fruit exports. While fresh whole fruit exports traditionally favoured varieties like Alphonso and Kesar, Karnataka's Totapuri serves as the backbone of the industrial mango processing industry India widens export basket: Amrapali mangoes, premium cherries, frozen French fries find new markets
Here the Ministry of Commerce has facilitated a number of fresh agricultural and processed-food items in July that have found buyers in new overseas markets, underlining the country's widening export palette, an official said.
Shipments of goods such as Amrapali mangoes, premium Areko cherries, frozen French fries, Ginger, pineapple, honey, GI-tagged Lakadong turmeric, Scentrose plums, Purabi Ice Cream, Neelam and Totapuri mangoes and flavoured makhana (fox nuts) were among the consignments shipped to destinations such as Singapore, Iraq, the UAE, Canada, Bhutan and Maldives.
The development comes as exporters and government agencies step up efforts to diversify markets and move beyond traditional commodities, tapping rising demand for value-added and speciality food products abroad.
According to the commerce ministry, Amrapali mangoes from Gumla and Deoghar in Jharkhand have been shipped to Dubai; Neelam and Totapuri mangoes from Karnataka were exported to the Maldives. While Premium Areko cherries and Scentrose plums from Jammu & Kashmir were exported to the UAE and Singapore, Frozen French fries produced in Kashipur, Uttarakhand, were shipped to Iraq.
Similarly, consignments of ginger, pineapple, honey and GI-tagged Lakadong turmeric from Ri Bhoi in Meghalaya reached Singapore, and Flavoured makhana from Darbhanga, Bihar, found buyers in Canada. Meanwhile, Purabi ice cream from Assam was exported to Bhutan, marking another processed-food item making inroads into neighbouring markets.
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