Pakistan earns about 24 million dollar annually from mango export, an official Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock told APP on Saturday. Mango is the second major fruit crop grown on an area of over 93,000 hectares with a production of the 915,000 tonnes, every year.
He said around 60-70 percent good quality fruit exported to middle East countries, followed by 15-16 percent to European states. He said the total export varies from year to year but there is huge potential for export of Pakistani mango in world market, he remarked.
He said there was a need to enhance production and quality of the fruit by adopting modern orchard management techniques. He said the area under mango crop had increased but the productivity ratio was low due to some diseases of mango.
In Punjab, he said Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Muzaffargarh, Bahawalpur, Kabirwala, Vehari and Okara are famous for quality mango production. In Sindh it is mainly grown in Khairpur Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas. In NWFP, mango was grown in Peshawar's suburbs.
He said efforts were increased the export of mango and its growers were being equipped with modern techniques to protect the crop from diseases, especially powdery mildew, blossom blight and anthracnose. As part of efforts to enhance mango export, the agriculture linkages programme were being implemented in two main mango growing provinces of Sindh and Punjab with international research organisations.
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