As Indian Agriculture with 17.

4% of the Total Gross Value Added (GVA) in FY18 provides employment

to almost 54% workforce of the country. The Vision of Indian Agriculture pre-green revolution period
completely diverged from its paths from fulfilling the needs of its population to a mere political and
business element.

As of today, India is self-sustained to feed its population of almost 1.3 billion with Foodgrain
production has grown at CAGR 2.8%. Increasing land fragmentation in small and marginal farmers is
also becoming a nightmare, According to ICAR Report 157mn of the amount of Arable land has been
reduced by 62% from 1951 to 2011 and which leaves us to a merely 0.34 hectares per person. About
85% of the farmers come under this category, and they suffer from the severe disadvantage of the
scale of economics, as they cannot use and afford the high-tech machineries and other advance
mechanization techniques hence, we need to educate our farmers on proper crop diversification and
crop rotation methods.

An Indian farmer has to bear the loss and pain at every stage of the value chain after the crop
production post-harvest losses are the major issue faced by the farmers, i.e., on an annual basis,
almost $13 billion or INR 92,651 crore worth of food goes in the post-harvest losses. Lack of Agri-
logistics, warehousing, and storage facilities also limits the farmer's profitability in case of perishable
fruits and vegetables. Fruits (35%) and Vegetables (66%) together constitute 91% of total
horticulture production in India, and to sell his/her produce; farmers need an efficient supply chain,
which can provide them a transparent market and a reasonable sales price. Still, according to a
report of Status of Farmers Income Report by Doubling Farmers income Committee, 2017 almost
40% of the total fruits and vegetable produce are unable to sell in the market precisely due to
inefficient supply chain, the gap in the supply and demand, improper storage and logistic reach.

A large chunk of India's GDP share goes to the import-export in the country, it accounts for 48.8% of
India's GDP in the year 2017. In the year 2019, India's export value is around 330 billion dollars, and
import value is about 514 billion dollars. India stands at the second position in agriculture production
and is a leading exporter of many commodities in the world. According to the recent reports, India's
agricultural export grow by 9%, which is higher than the world's leading countries in trading, such as
China (8%), Brazil (5.4%), USA (5.1%) between the year 2007 – 2016. During this period, India
experiment 3-5-fold increase in some of the products such as Horticulture produce, coffee, cereals,
meat, beef, processed commodities, and many others. However, most of the Indian export product
portfolio consists of low-value products, raw or semi-processed and sold/marketed in bulk and
because of these reasons the share of agricultural export share is only 15% as compared to the other
nations such as 25% in the USA and 49% in China. Most of the products which India can not export
are due to lack of uniform quality, insecticides/pesticide residuals, standardization, and unable to
follow the rules and regulations of the exporting country.

India is a fruit basket, and it produces over 90 million tonnes of fruits in 6.3 million hectares area.
Mango accounts for one-fifth of the total fruit production next to banana's share in the fruit
production, and it covers almost 2500 thousand hectares with an output of 18 million tonnes in the
year 2016, and Indian mango contributes to the world's 40 percent production. India, with over 1000
varieties of the mango, 30 of these varieties have excellent potential in the export because of their
unique flavor, taste, aroma, and colour. India has exported almost 40 million USD worth of mangoes
from January to April 2017 with the top export destination are UAE, UK, Saudi Arab, Qatar, and
Kuwait contributing to 47% of the world's mango export. The Sates which contributes to the
majority of India's production UP contributes around 23%, Andhra Pradesh contributes 18%,
Telangana and Karnataka both contribute around 9%, Bihar and Gujarat 6%-7%, Maharashtra, and
Tamil Nadu contributes about 4%. Alphonso's variety of mango is mostly grown abundantly in the
regions of Ratnagiri, Sindgudurga, and Raigad districts of the Konkan region. Alphonso variety of
mango is well known as "king of mangoes" and is a most loved variety by the people and
contributing second in the mango export sharing almost 34% with a value of 14.08 million USD of the
total shipping and this variety demand in the foreign market rise continuously in the last few years.

In a recent report, Maharashtra state topped the list in terms of export value in India, and it
accounts for more than 50 percent to India's export basket. The state leads in various commodities
such as mangoes, grapes, oranges, onions, cotton, and a large no of other vegetables, fruits, and
other essential products. However, the full export potential of Maharashtra is yet to be tapped. In
recent news, the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (MSAMB) announced that the
Maharashtra government is all set to develop five new "export clusters." The state prime focus is to
promote mangoes, grapes, pomegranate, onions, and oranges through these clusters in the state.

However, with all the rising trades and globalization in the world, we are hit by a pandemic COVID-
19 in the first quarter of the year 2020 . It impacted the fruit and vegetable exports by 30%-40%
during the peak harvest season of the fruits such as Mango, Grapes, and other fruits and vegetables
due to global lockdown for 4-5 months. It became a nightmare for the local sellers; interstate sellers
and exporters are suffering a lot due to pandemic. Farmers who have received the consignments in
the Sindhudurg districts from the Konkan region have their product ready for the consignments kept
in their warehouse from 2-3 months. Local trade is also coming to a standstill due to state border
seal, and it leads to cancellation of the orders throughout the world.