The little pickle that you enjoy once out of his jar of vinegar is likely to have been cultivated in India, the second largest producer of "baby cucumbers." When he started to be grown on the plains of Himalayan ago that 3000 years, the cucumber had no idea he would soon be one of the leading products exported by what has become "the largest democracy in the world." And not under any form please, we're talking about a cucumber improved: the pickle, cucumber juvenile (baby then) pickled.
India is today the second largest producer of pickles, behind China (as always ...). The country produces 200,000 tons of small gourd each year, representing 20% of total exports. This means your pickle jar has a great chance to have emerged in India in one of three producing states, Karnataka (70%), the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
This is even more likely that some major European groups to come to the food supply in India since the 2000s. They have understood the interest of Indian pickle produced for a price below 40% at French prices for example.
Thus, the major brands as specialists pickle Amora Maille - owned by Unilever - are sourcing or Reitzel India. In France, Amora Maille has abandoned its producers of the Yonne, finding themselves "like pickles" with their pickle on small arms, which nobody wants to share the French! The company, which controls 50% of the world's pickle, went to see the side of Bangalore from 2004. As for Reitzel, it leaves every hour 10,000 jars of pickles at its plants in Kerala since 2005. In other words, few Indian farmers "lucky" made a fortune. The Tribune newspaper reported India as early as April 2001 that the export of pickles had made 12 millionaires farmers in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
