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Okra

Okra, also called bhindi or lady's finger, specified by tenderness, pod size, quality and packing.

Okra is traded for fresh retail, food service and processing, where pod tenderness and the intended preparation are central buying considerations. The crop is also known commercially as bhindi or lady's finger. Fresh pods, frozen cuts and dried products need separate specifications even when they originate from the same crop. Duara Group reviews the required form, pod size, condition, pack, quantity and destination. Country-production records do not establish a particular cultivar, processed form or confirmed Duara origin for a shipment.

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Okra buying guide

Pod type and the intended market

State whether the requirement is fresh whole pods or a processed form such as frozen whole or cut okra. If a particular colour or cultivar is important, identify it rather than treating all okra as equivalent. Size requirements should support the actual cooking or processing use. Define whether trimmed ends or other preparation are expected and how that affects the quoted weight. A trade name such as bhindi does not replace a written description of the form and grade.

Tenderness, maturity and physical quality

Okra quality should be assessed through tenderness, maturity, appearance and condition, not size alone. Agree limits for damage, broken pods, dehydration, decay and foreign material. Pod ridges and surfaces need protection during handling. If a buyer requests a recognised size or grade designation, identify its meaning and sampling basis explicitly. A representative sample should show the offered lot's range rather than a few unusually uniform pods selected for a photograph or quotation presentation.

Culinary and processing applications

A fresh-market customer may prioritise uniform pod presentation and retail packs, while a kitchen may need a particular usable portion or preparation. A frozen-food processor should define whole or cut form, cut dimensions where relevant, treatments and ingredient declaration. Test samples in the actual application and separate functional preferences from food-safety requirements. A country that grows okra is not automatically a documented producer of the buyer's frozen or dried form, and that capability needs independent confirmation.

Packing and a product-specific cold chain

Specify crates, cartons or retail packs, net contents, ventilation and stacking limits. Okra needs a handling plan appropriate to the commodity; colder is not automatically better, because unsuitable temperatures can affect quality. Agree the proposed conditions with the actual supplier and logistics team. Protect pods from rough contact, compression and unnecessary moisture loss. Any shelf-life statement should be tied to the form, pack and handling evidence, rather than copied from a general crop guide.

Receiving and onward distribution

Set a receiving specification covering pod condition, tenderness, damage and pack integrity. Ask for harvest or packing information and relevant handling records. Plan how quickly the buyer will distribute or prepare the product and how deviations will be documented. Retail appearance and kitchen suitability may need different checks. If the buyer intends to repack the pods, include that extra handling in the plan instead of assuming the product's remaining life is unaffected after arrival.

Preparing a bulk okra inquiry

Provide form, variety or colour where important, pod size, tenderness and quality requirements, packing, quantity and destination. Include any customer standard, testing or document requirements and identify the sample-approval process. Recurring programmes should define how variation between lots and proposed substitutions are reviewed. Duara assesses current source and route feasibility against those details. No fixed grade, origin, minimum volume, certification, stock availability or guaranteed delivery period is implied by this guide or the country directory.

Documented Production by Country

The records below describe okra crop production; not frozen processing output. Quantities are national production statistics for the stated year, not available export quantities or Duara supply capacity. Estimates are labelled; uncorroborated imputed observations are retained internally rather than published as verified production.

These are dated production or manufacturing records, not a list of Duara suppliers or confirmed delivery destinations. The directory covers the evidence verified so far; it does not claim an exhaustive list of all producing countries.

Okra in Albania

2024 okra production: 8,123.95 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Antigua and Barbuda

2024 okra production: 31.65 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Bahamas

2024 okra production: 506.06 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Bahrain

2024 okra production: 690 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Bangladesh

2024 okra production: 99,079 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Belize

2024 okra production: 14 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Bhutan

2024 okra production: 25.99 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Brunei Darussalam

2024 okra production: 445.89 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Cameroon

2024 okra production: 75,308.81 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Congo

2024 okra production: 1,565.73 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Côte d’Ivoire

2024 okra production: 181,276 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT. Dataset area: Côte d'Ivoire.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Dominican Republic

2024 okra production: 836,360.54 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Fiji

2024 okra production: 6,125 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in India

2024 okra production: 7,305,410 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Iraq

2024 okra production: 46,969 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Jamaica

2024 okra production: 6,034 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Jordan

2024 okra production: 6,651.15 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Kenya

2024 okra production: 22,106 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Kuwait

2024 okra production: 1,655.98 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Lebanon

2024 okra production: 1,057.21 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Malawi

2024 okra production: 2,874.55 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Malaysia

2024 okra production: 70,202.62 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Mali

2024 okra production: 655,971.17 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Mauritius

2024 okra production: 1,362.3 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Mexico

2024 okra production: 35,320.11 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Niger

2024 okra production: 200,458.33 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Oman

2024 okra production: 8,301 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Pakistan

2024 okra production: 306,294 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Philippines

2024 okra production: 32,504.42 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Senegal

2024 okra production: 22,969 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Sierra Leone

2024 okra production: 84,287.4 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Sri Lanka

2024 okra production: 72,623 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Sudan

2024 okra production: 303,831.06 tonnes. FAOSTAT estimate.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Syrian Arab Republic

2024 okra production: 15,161 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Trinidad and Tobago

2024 okra production: 1,385 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

Okra in Türkiye

2024 okra production: 28,152 tonnes. Official national figure in FAOSTAT.

Data year: 2024. Evidence checked: 2026-11-01. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — 2024 production quantities; item, area and flag codes retained

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Supply specification

Grade, origin, packaging and order quantity are agreed per consignment. We do not publish stock or origin claims.

Typically supplied asFresh whole pods, Size-graded packs, Frozen or cut okra inquiries
Grades and varietiesConfirmed on inquiry
PackagingConfirmed on inquiry
Minimum order quantityConfirmed on inquiry
Country of originConfirmed on inquiry
Certification and documentationConfirmed on inquiry

Confirm when you enquire

Tell us the following and we will come back with availability, packaging and a quotation.

Fresh or processed form
Variety and pod colour where required
Pod length and uniformity
Tenderness and maturity
Damage and decay tolerances
Packing and net contents
Handling plan and destination

Applications

  • Vegetable importers
  • Retail produce programmes
  • Hospitality kitchens
  • Frozen and prepared-food processors

Frequently asked questions

Are okra, bhindi and lady's finger separate products?

They are common trade names for okra in this context and share one canonical page. The form, variety and specification still need to be identified for each order.

Is pod size enough to define quality?

No. Tenderness, maturity, damage, dehydration and decay also matter. Agree the inspection method and tolerances for the buyer's intended use.

Should all fresh okra use the coldest available storage?

No. The handling conditions must suit the commodity and lot. Ask for a product-specific plan rather than assuming that a setting used for another vegetable is appropriate.

Do the statistics prove frozen-okra manufacture?

No. They describe the harvested crop. A frozen or dried product needs evidence for the processing operation and the actual ingredient and packing specification.

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