date:Jan 15, 2019
also lowered from 2017. The orchards require more water mostly from August to December. Last week I was travelling in Khairpur district. I saw their banana leaves paling, he told, explaining that except for the orchards located around head irrigation system, a majority of farms had been badly affected by the water unavailability.
He lamented that in addition to the lower yields, the absence of grading, packing, marketing and transportation usually caused up to 40 per cent of post-harvest losse