FRUIT CROPS:
- India is the second largest producer of fruits after Brazil.
- A large variety of fruit crops are grown in India. Of these, mango, banana, citrus, papaya, guava, pineapple, sapota, jackfruit, litchi, grapes, apple, pear, peach, plum, walnut etc. are the important ones.
- India accounts for 10 per cent of the total world production of fruits.
- It leads the world in the production of mango, banana, sapota and acid lime besides recording highest productivity in grape.
- The leading fruit growing states are Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.