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About a third of Ayannan Karuppaiah’s 75-ton banana crop used to rot before it reached the market about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away in Chennai, India. Now, his fruit is eaten in the Middle East.
Karuppaiah transformed his business after buying a refrigerated truck from Ingersoll-Rand Plc (IR) two years ago. The vehicle, modified to handle narrow roads and temperatures that can reach about 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), enabled Karuppaiah to get his bananas blemish-free to Bangalore and Chennai, where he sells them wholesale for export to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
“It used to be awful seeing all of my hard work just rot away,” said Karuppaiah, 51, who’s bought five more trucks since. “Now, I’ve paid for my daughter’s wedding and put my son through college.”
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