GHIAL starts exporting mangoes to South Korea

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. (GHIAL), which operates Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), here today said it started exporting mangoes to South Korea.
According to a statement issued by GMR, it has exported an initial commercial consignment of 2.5 tons of Indian mangoes for the first time to South Korea through its cargo terminal, being operated by Hyderabad Menzies Air Cargo Pvt. Ltd (HMACPL).
In this regard, GHIAL and HMACPL teams has worked with the farmer community at Vizianagaram facility for developing a pack-house, creating markets, commissioning this project with requisite approvals from government and exporting Suvarnarekha variety of mangoes to South Korea, it said.

Meanwhile, GHIAL and HMACPL are in the process of identifying and enabling similar infrastructure across the catchment areas in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, northern Karnataka and eastern Maharashtra among others, that can provide the requisite processing facility, said the release.