Early season for Indian grapes with higher export volumes

It has been a positive season for Indian grapes, despite higher than usual temperatures since October 2023, fruit quality and production volumes have been better than in previous years. "This year's harvest has been early, we started in mid-December, almost fifteen days earlier than usual, and we will probably also finish two weeks earlier. However, production volumes are expected to increase by 20% year-on-year," he explains. to PortalFruticola.com Paresh Bhayani, director of Panacea Energizers, Indian grape exporters since 1998. Indian grapes are mainly exported to European markets as well as Russia. Bhayani is confident that Indian grapes will continue to supply the European market until the end of March. The crisis in the Red Sea has forced shipments to be diverted around the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa, "this means that the fruit travels in 41 days, instead of 21 days when shipments pass through the Suez Canal." "There could be some arrival issues with dehydration, ...