date:Feb 04, 2014
minated or at least reduced in the export process, adding that also important was the element of farmer. Exports of citrus fruit, he said, could be enhanced manifold provided farmers were given direct benefit because farmers didn't get appropriate rate for Kinnow.
Jawad said annual production of citrus on an average was estimated about two million tons, of which 90 percent was Kinnow. Currently, the world market for citrus is valued at more than $2.135 billion in which Pakistan's share has rema