FPCCI official seeks urgent consultancy for mango growers across country.

KARACHI -- Ahmad Jawad, Secretary General for FPCCI's Businessman panel has urged provincial agriculture departments of Sindh and Punjab to ensure urgent assistance to the mango growers in context of safe harvesting, processing, packing and transportation in face of existent COVID -19 scenario.

In a statement here Monday, he said besides the global pandemic abnormal weather pattern has also severely affected mango crop of the country, a source of its foreign exchange earning, demanding that concerned officials immediately approach the growers and raise the latter's awareness as how to handle the situation.

Mentioning that the fruit is grown in more than 100 countries of the world and that Pakistan is the fifth highest producer of it, he feared that under emerging...