date:Nov 19, 2018
Pomegranate farmers in the Indian state of Maharashtra are staring at difficult times as drought has cast a shadow on more than 50 per cent of the orchards. All India Pomegranate Growers Federation president Prabhakar Chandane said export prospects for the fruit were dim because of the drought.
For this year, the federation was aiming exports of 10,000 tonnes of pomegranate to Europe and around 70,000 tonnes to other countries. Chandane said the window for exports to the European Union is betwe