Banana
Grand Naine — shipped green, ripened at destination
Grand Naine Cavendish banana, harvested green at the calibrated stage, washed, crown-treated and packed for ripening at destination. Banana is India's largest fresh fruit export by volume, and the cold chain from packhouse to ripening room is the product.
Specification
- Variety
- Grand Naine (Cavendish)
- Grade
- Finger length 18–22 cm · calibre 38–44 mm, to buyer specification
- Harvest stage
- Green, three-quarter full, by calibration
- Clusters
- 4–8 fingers, crown trimmed and treated
- Defects
- Free of scarring, latex stain and bruising; tolerance to agreed grade
- Pesticide residues
- To destination-market MRL
- Transit temperature
- 13–14 °C, pulp temperature logged
Packing and terms
- Packing
- 13 kg / 13.5 kg carton with polyliner
- Container loading
- By carton count, 40 ft reefer
- Minimum quantity
- 1 FCL
- Loading ports
- Nhava Sheva · Mundra
- label
- value
- Season
- Year-round
Classification
Banana is shipped green and ripened at destination, so the product is the cold chain: pulp temperature is taken at stuffing, the reefer set point is written onto the booking and the data logger travels with the fruit. Give us the ripening programme your market runs and we calibrate the harvest stage to it.
The values above are the parameters we quote against and have verified at the load port. Where your own requirement is tighter, yours governs and we quote to it.