In a retaliatory move against export of onions to India through land route, the Amritsar-based vegetable exporters on Friday refused to send trucks carrying tomatoes and other vegetables to Pakistan via Attari-Wagah land route. "Today, we will not export vegetables to Pakistan because Pakistan government has put a ban on onion export to India," vegetable trader Anil Mehra said according to Indian media.
This decision has been taken collectively by about 40 vegetables exporters based at Amritsar. "We took this decision because when we needed vegetables (onion), Pakistan has simply banned the export of essential item," he said, adding that the traders were not bothered about the losses, which they would face because of not sending vegetables to neighbouring country.
Almost 70 trucks carrying vegetables including tomatoes, ginger and chillies have been withheld by vegetable exporters and were not sent for customs clearance. "So far, no truck carrying vegetables including tomatoes has crossed over to Pakistan through land route though five to six trucks containing soybean (animal feed) have moved to neighbouring country," a senior official of Customs Department at Amritsar said.
India is a major exporter of vegetables to Pakistan as out of total export via land route, 30-32 percent account for tomatoes alone. Besides, soybean has a share of 55 percent and remaining with chilly, ginger, potatoes, capsicum, biscuits, raw cotton, etc.
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