• S. Jayanthi Sobhana
• Dr. P.Sekar

Grapes the common fruit belonging to the Vitaceae family, originated in Western Asia and Europe. It is widely grown all over the world, it was introduced to India by the Persian invaders in 1300 A. D. Grapes are the cross pollinated vine with simple, lobed, cut or toothed leaves (seldom compound) with racemes of greenish flowers, the fruit consisting of watered-down or fleshy pulp, stones and skin, four - seeded. Grapes preserve can actually be eaten as a fresh or can be worn or used for making squash, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts or grape seed oil. Roughly around 71% of world grape production is being used for wine, 27% as a fresh fruit, and remaining 2% as a dried fruit. However, in India, 90% of the grape is actually used for table purpose, even though wine making has made strides. The rest of the grape is used mostly for raisin purpose.

Grape Cultivation, Productivity, Commercial Fruit

"Dilemma Faced by Farmers in production and Marketing of Grapes in Thondamuthur region - Coimbatore District", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.720-725, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907408.pdf

"Dilemma Faced by Farmers in production and Marketing of Grapes in Thondamuthur region - Coimbatore District", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp720-725, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907408.pdf