PIA offers concessional fares to enhance mango exports after efforts by MNSUA.

MULTAN -- Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture's initiative to promote mango export amid COVID 19 won laurel as Pakistan International Airline (PIA) decided to reduce freight fares remarkably (no profit, no loss) in order to keep mango exports flourishing, which earlier were feared to drop in the wake of pandemic coronavirus.

Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA) hold four online sessions with Mango growers/exporters and convinced them to follow complete SOPs regarding coronavirus during work in the orchards and MNSUA would help them for managing export of the fruit.

On June 17, During a webinar, led by Vice Chancellor Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture and attended by CEO PIA Air Vice Marshal Muhammad Arshid Malik, Mr Tariq (GM Commercial Cargo, PIA), Ms Rabia Sultan (Mango Grower), Maj Retd Tariq Khan (Mango Grower), Syed Zahid Gardezi (Mango Grower), Prof Dr Irfan Baig (Dean MNSUA) and some other stakeholders, the meeting participants discussed different problems faced by the mango stakeholders in export of the exotic fruit.

Vice Chancellor Dr Asif Ali highlighted the bottlenecks, faced by mango exporters in the air lifting of the fruit with the top management of PIA. He unveiled development of series of previous meetings amid COVID 19 which aimed to ensure safe production, post-harvest, handling, labour safety protocols and mango export protocols.

The meeting participants especially mango growers and exporters apprised that they had captured different markets after incessant struggle during previous years. This year, they are faced with...