New Delhi, May 21 :The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority(APEDA), in collaboration with Indian embassy, Seoul and Indian Chamber of Commerce in Korea organised a Virtual Buyer Seller Meet to increase mango exports to South Korea.
Participants in the meet held on Thursday included senior officials from APEDA, Embassy of India, ICCK, exporters from India and importers from South Korea, an official statement said on Friday.
India had, earlier in the month, shipped a consignment of 2.5 Metric Tonne (MTs) of Geographical Indication (GI) certified Banganapalli and other variety Survarnarekha mangoes sourced from farmers in Krishna & Chittor districts of Andhra Pradesh.

The mangoes exported to South Korea, were treated, cleaned & shipped from the APEDA assisted and registered packhouse & vapor heat treatment facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh and exported by IFFCO Kisan SEZ (IKSEZ), the statement read.
Mangoes are processed by the APEDA registered packhouse facilities and then exported to various regions and countries including middle east, European Union, USA, Japan and South Korea.(UNI)