Banana exports up 30% during April-January

India exported 1,27,230 tonnes of banana, fetching ₹447 crore, in between April 2019 and January 2020, which is virtually thirty for every cent much more in phrases of quantity and forty nine for every cent in benefit phrases about the corresponding period of time previous yr, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar instructed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

During the corresponding period of time previous yr, India exported ninety eight,044 tonnes of banana valued at ₹301 crore, he claimed in a created reply to a issue elevated by Raksha Khadse, a BJP MP from Maharashtra, who claimed growing temperatures have affected banana crop on 5,000 hectares in Jalgaon in the State.

According to Tomar, the government has no strategies to assistance the farmers as it has not acquired any complaints about crop decline because of to adverse climate from the Maharashtra government.