New Delhi, June 26 -- India, a major exporter of mangoes, is developing a protocol to transport the fruit by sea to overseas destinations while maintaining their quality and preventing losses due to spoilage.

Sea protocol trials have been successfully carried out with bananas and pomegranates shipped from Indian ports to Rotterdam in the Netherlands and countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach, Sudhanshu, secretary of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), toldMint on the sidelines of a conference on agri-exports.

"Now we are developing sea protocols for mangoes, which will definitely boost the export of the fruit," he said.

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