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Why Gujarat

A state built on high-value cultivation

Gujarat’s horticulture base spans fruit, vegetable and spice cultivation at commercial scale, supported by a dedicated state Directorate of Horticulture and a national mission for horticultural development. Horticulture World Expo 2026 is staged in that context — in Rajkot, one of the four divisional centres of Gujarat’s horticulture administration.

Every figure on this page is sourced. See sources and method.

The cultivation base

Fruit, vegetable and spice cultivation at scale

Area and production as reported by the Directorate of Horticulture, Gujarat (2022). The three groups are shown separately and never summed: the source publishes no figure for flowers, plantation or medicinal crops, so a total would understate the sector.

Production strengths

India’s seed-spice heartland

Gujarat’s clearest verified position in national production is in seed spices.

How to read the cumin figure

Cumin is stated as a combined Gujarat and Rajasthan share because Rajasthan, not Gujarat, leads national cumin production in the 2024-25 final estimates — 688,560 tonnes against Gujarat’s 471,838 tonnes. The combined figure holds in both the 2023-24 and 2024-25 editions.

Spices Board India · 2024-25 final estimates

Institutional ecosystem

Backed by national and state programmes

Directorate of Horticulture, Gujarat

Gujarat’s Directorate of Horticulture, established in 1991, runs the state’s horticultural programmes through its own field infrastructure.

  • 7Centres of Excellence
  • 23Nurseries
  • 33Canning and kitchen-garden centres

Divisional offices

  • Vadodara
  • Surat
  • Mehsana
  • Rajkot

Rajkot, where the expo is staged, is one of the four divisional offices of the Directorate of Horticulture.

Agriculture, Farmers Welfare & Co-operation Department, Government of Gujarat · undated page

Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture

The Government of India’s centrally sponsored scheme for horticulture, running since 2014-15. It covers quality planting material, protected cultivation, micro-irrigation, post-harvest management and market infrastructure.

15.66 lakh ha

Additional area brought under horticultural crops nationally

Under MIDH, as of July 2025.

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare · August 2025

National context

A sector growing nationally

India is the world’s second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables, and national horticulture output has grown steadily over the past decade.

What this means for the expo

A dedicated horticulture platform, in the state the figures describe

Gujarat cultivates fruit, vegetables and spices at commercial scale, holds a verified lead in seed spices, and runs a dedicated horticulture directorate with a divisional office in Rajkot. Horticulture World Expo 2026 is a dedicated horticulture, floriculture and sustainable cultivation exhibition staged in that city on 25–27 December 2026.

What the research supports is the relevance of the location. It says nothing about how many people will attend, what business will be written, or what any exhibitor should expect — and this page does not imply otherwise.

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Provenance

Sources & method

Every source below is a government or statutory-body publication. Accessed 19 August 2026.

  1. State government directorate

    Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat

    Introduction — area, production and leading crops

    Reference year: stated as 2022

    doh.gujarat.gov.in— opens Introduction — area, production and leading crops in a new tab

  2. State government department

    Agriculture, Farmers Welfare & Co-operation Department, Government of Gujarat

    Director of Horticulture — mandate and infrastructure

    Reference year: undated page

    agri.gujarat.gov.in— opens Director of Horticulture — mandate and infrastructure in a new tab

  3. Statutory body, Ministry of Commerce & Industry

    Spices Board India

    Major spices — state-wise area and production (PDF)

    Reference year: 2024-25 final estimates

    www.indianspices.com— opens Major spices — state-wise area and production (PDF) in a new tab

  4. Union government ministry, via Press Information Bureau

    Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

    Horticulture sector background note, August 2025 (PDF)

    Reference year: August 2025

    static.pib.gov.in— opens Horticulture sector background note, August 2025 (PDF) in a new tab

Method

  • Every figure on this page is traceable to a named government or statutory-body source, with the publisher, the document and the reference year stated beside it.
  • Reference years are printed as the source prints them. Where a source labels its figures only “2022”, that is what appears here rather than a fiscal year it does not claim.
  • Where sources disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than resolved silently — as with cumin, where the national lead changed between editions.
  • Claims that could not be traced to a primary source were dropped rather than softened. No secondary or aggregator sources are cited on this page.

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25–27 December 2026 · Rajkot, Gujarat, Bharat

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