G9 Cavendish Banana

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1 Container (20 MT) (MOQ)

Business Type: Exporter, Supplier, Trader
Packaging Type: Carton Box (13.5kg)
Stage: Hard Green at Loading
Hands per Box: 4-6

About G9 Cavendish Banana

Grand Naine, traded as G9, is the Cavendish selection that underpins India’s banana export trade. Fruit is cut at hard-green maturity (typically around 75–80%) so it withstands reefer transit and ripens under controlled conditions at the destination, which is the standard buyers in Iran, Iraq and the Gulf purchase against.

A G9 purchase specification usually fixes five things in writing: caliper and finger length measured on a defined finger, the number of hands or clusters per carton, net carton weight, the allowance for cosmetic defects such as scarring and bruising, and pulp temperature at loading. Agreeing all five before the first container is what turns an arrival disagreement into a measurement rather than an argument.

After de-handing, hands are cut into clusters, washed to remove latex, and the crowns treated against crown rot before packing in poly-lined cartons. Fruit is then pre-cooled towards its carrying temperature before stuffing. A reefer is built to hold temperature, not to pull field heat out of a full load, so fruit that goes in warm stays warm for longer than the specification allows.

The carrying temperature of 13–14°C is not arbitrary. Below roughly 13°C green bananas suffer chilling injury: the peel dulls towards grey-brown and the fruit ripens unevenly, a defect that often only shows once the fruit reaches the ripening room. For this product the setpoint matters as much as the cold chain itself, which is why we confirm it on the booking and record it on the shipping documents.