by `Imran Ali, Customs Today
Pakistan has earned Rs 4.9 billion USD (48.6 million) from the export of mangoes to different regions of the world in 2014.
Provincial Parliamentary Secretary Rana Ejaz Noon said this while addressing the Executive District Officers Agriculture of the Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan, Khanewal and Bahawalpur. He said the major portion of the mango export was from the South Punjab.
He said that Pakistan has exported 86, 000 tonnes of mangoes to the different countries of the world in 2014. He directed the executive district officers to guide and train field workers of mango orchards through different training workshops that would boost the export this year. The staff of the pest warning control should visit the orchards fields and direct the field workers according to the ground situation of mango fields, he stressed.
“The South Punjab mango is one of the mango lands where the delicious quality mango orchards exists in the Pakistan and field officers should visit the mango fields continuously to guide the mango field workers how to heed the mango trees during the winter,” he stressed.
“Pakistan has done different initiatives for the increase in export of mango like hot water treatment of the mangoes and many safety measures needs to be perform in frost to protect the quality and growth of mango,” he recommended.
Source: Customs Today