The co-founder of the walnut processing company "Anigozi" deeply believes that the Indian market is interesting and attractive for Georgian walnut exports. Ana Kevkhishvili spoke about this while visiting TV program "Women's Narrative".
"We conduct annual international market analytics for walnuts and almonds, both for producing and purchasing countries. India stands out in the sense that it buys the highest quality walnuts, specifically the Chandler variety. Georgian Chandler is very close in its quality indicators to Chilean walnuts, and Chile is known as the producer of the highest-quality walnuts. The main part of Chilean walnuts, the highest quality, goes to the Indian market, which is the main consumer. Accordingly, we try to indicate to new consumers that we produce a product of higher quality than, for example, California walnuts.
India became an interesting and target market for us after we learned that the highest quality Chandler variety specifically enters India. Additionally, China, from where a large amount of product is exported, including budget walnuts, has no trade connection with India. Chinese nuts cannot officially enter India. The walnut sector always faces competition from China, and the fact that they cannot enter the Indian market and face obstacles gives us a competitive advantage," explains Ana Kevkhishvili.
Kevkhishvili also notes that the low awareness about Georgia as a walnut-producing country is a challenge for increasing exports, which is gradually growing in small steps: "The Indian market has always been interesting for us, but we don't have recognition in this market. They mainly know the largest and most famous countries from walnut and almond-producing markets. Not only in India, we don't have recognition in many other markets because we don't have a long-term history in this, we are new producers."
"Anigozi" participated in one of the major B2B events in India, MEWA INDIA 2025, which primarily focuses on nuts and dried fruits production. The exhibition featured dozens of companies from up to 50 countries, including seven Georgian enterprises.
