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India is an agriculture based country. Hundreds of fruits and vegetables types are grown in all parts of India. Fresh fruits and vegetable reach small scale fruits vegetables suppliers, they are then sent to local markets as well as fruits and vegetables exporters. Last decades have seen the number of Indian fruit vegetables suppliers and fruits vegetables exporters rising to an all time high. Especially there has been a steep rise in the number of vegetable exporters. India is the world’s second largest producer of fruits and vegetables - - after the United States accounting for 10 percent of global share. Out of 370 million tons of fruits production in the world, India accounts for 30 million tone. Of the 456 million tone of vegetable produced in the world, India’s share is 59 million tone amounting to 17 percent. The production of fruits & vegetable contributes more than 30% of the agriculture GDP.
India is geographically very close to GCC. The volume of trade exchange between India & GCC countries exceeded US $ 64 billion in 2009. The GCC states import a variety of Goods including agricultural commodities while India imports oil & gas in return. The GCC countries need more agricultural products as their countries agricultural production is very poor compare to the rest of the countries in the world. India can get this potential market for Indian fruits & vegetable product. This makes the Indian economy an ideal source for sourcing and developing agro based value chain in the GCC region. GGC, with a presence of an advanced processing and packaging industry, combined with highly developed transportation sector, has huge opportunities in expanding into a cost effective agro based value chain.
