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Kinno exports up by 64.67 percent
LAHORE (April 21
2004): Pakistan exported 3519 containers of kinno
fruit during the 2003-04 season, against 2137
containers in the preceding year, showing an
increase of 64.67 percent.
Chief executive officer Pakistan Horticulture
Development and Export Board (PHDEB), Shamoon
Sadiq, said the newsmen that exports which started
during the last week of October last year, picked
up significantly during the month of March.
He said PHDEB was striving to seek new markets for
Pakistan's citrus fruit especially kinno.
Pakistan produces about 8 percent of the world's
citrus fruits, grown nearly in all the four
provinces of the country in varying proportions.
It is however, concentrated in Punjab which grows
95 percent of the national output, mainly in
Sargodha and Khushab districts.
Popular citrus varieties grown in Punjab include
oranges, limes and lemons, with about 60 percent
of the total production comprising of mandarin or
kinno.
Shamoon Sadiq said that a six-member delegation of
Pakistani exporters had visited the Russian
Federation in January last to explore this
non-traditional market, and obtained trial orders.
He hoped that effective implementation of the
citrus strategy recently developed by PHDEB would
go a long way to ensure smooth marketing and
export of kinno.
Courtesy Business Recorder
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