PFVA APPEALS TO EXPORT MANGO FROM 1ST JUNE.

The climatic change and lockdown have severely affected the mango crops. The mango crops in Sindh and Punjab is likely to get matured after a delay of two weeks. The season of mango slides further to a couple of weeks due to non-availability of required level of temperature and humid climate. The Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association (PFVA), keeping these factors in view has requested the Ministry of Commerce to extend the date of export of mango by further twelve days fixing it at 1st June 2020. The climatic change has started taking heavy toll of it's devastating effects by impacting major agriculture crops besides fruits as well Waheed Ahmed Patron-in-Chief of Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association (PFVA) shared. The mango crop usually gets mature by middle of May, however, it's strongly anticipated to be delayed by two weeks this year and exporting pre-matured mango would not be beneficial.

On other hand due to lockdown adequate preparations have not yet been made related to export of mango as transportation for carrying labourers to the mango orchards and essential arrangements for packing still have a big question mark! According to Waheed Ahmed, the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has fixed date of export of mango as 20th May for the current year, however, due to the crops' immaturity by this given date if the export of mango commences, it would badly hurt export of mango from Pakistan. Since the mango crop is still not ready for harvesting and if the date of export of 20th May is followed, the exporters would ship immature and unsuitable...