Mahindra marks 20 years of pioneering Indian Table Grape exports

Exports high quality Indian grapes to Europe, North America, China and Southeast Asia.

Mahindra Agri Solutions Limited (MASL), part of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. and a leading exporter of table grapes from India, today announced the completion of 20 years of export from India to global markets. With Mahindra’s first shipment of grapes exported to Europe in 2005, MASL caters to customers across North America, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, and others with the highest level of quality, safety standards and sustainable practices.

MASL exports a wide variety of White Seedless grapes called Thomson and Sonaka, Red seedless grapes called Flame and Crimson and Black Seedless grapes called Jumbo and Sharad under the Saboro and Frukinz brands.

Featuring world-class technologies in the post-harvest management of grapes, MASL’s grape business is supported by a ‘state-of-the-art’ grape pack house in Nashik. Inaugurated in 2019, the pack house is used for the sorting, packaging and cold storage of table grapes, ensuring end-to-end process integration while maintaining freshness of the crop along the supply chain and enabling product traceability.

An integral part of the region’s agricultural landscape, MASL’s Grapes business works closely with over 500 farmers in Nashik, Baramati and Sangli sourcing high quality table grapes from these farmers, while providing them expertise in grape production and crop care. This includes improving their irrigation and cultivation practices and reducing the usage of chemical inputs and water, leading to a reduction in carbon footprint related to the crop, while also significantly enhancing grape grower incomes.

Besides redefining the way table grapes are grown and managed, MASL plays an active role in supporting the local community through employment generation, as well as social welfare initiatives. MASL has enabled farmers to improve their exportable yields by 3X (from 2.5 MT per acre to 7.5 MT per acre).

Speaking about MASL’s milestone of 20 years of grape exports, Ramesh Ramachandran – Managing Director & CEO, MASL said, “At MASL we are extremely proud of what we have achieved through our grapes business in the last 20 years. Having set out to sustainably enhance the quality, productivity and profitability of farming through a high value fruit crop like grapes, this milestone is a perfect reflection of our commitment to transform farming across the complete agriculture value chain. The result of our efforts can be seen in the significant improvement in how Indian table grapes are produced and exported from India to other parts of the world. We are also privileged to have been able to positively impact the lives of many hundreds of growers in the region.”

Ramesh further added, “With state-of-the-art sorting, packaging, and storage facilities, our grape packhouse in Nashik sets new industry benchmarks. The facility is renowned for its systematic approach to maintaining the highest standards of quality, taste and traceability ensuring that each despatch from the packhouse meets the exacting standards of global customers.”

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