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Tomato farmers face trouble as prices plummet
Business
April 1, 2021
KARACHI: Tomato farmers have slammed the lack of any horticulture policy and urged the government to provide necessary infrastructure for storage and value-addition along with guaranteed crop sales if they wanted them to continue sowing tomatoes.
Speaking to The News about rates, Atta Chandio, a grower, said the tomato crop was passing through its last leg in Badin due to increasing heat. “Rate increased to Rs100 to Rs150 per 15kg few days back, but now it is being sold at Rs50/15kg.”
Production of tomato increased in Badin over the last three years. However, price remains a problem as traders were the ones who fixed lower rates. Chandio said lower price was understandable when production was high, but at the end of the season price should technically go up.
Pakistan protests hamper kinnow exports
In Pakistan, kinnow exports were suspended due to a sit-in on roads in Karachi, interior Sindh, and Punjab. The traffic on several roads was disrupted due to a protest of the Shia community against the murders of some of their people from the Hazara community in Quetta.
More than 400 containers with kinnow are standing on the roads in Sindh and Punjab. Of course, exporters will sustain huge losses if containers did not reach the ports, said Waheed Ahmed, patron-in-chief of Pakistan Fruits and Vegetables’ Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association.
Kinnow worth $4.6 million were being transported in these 400 containers and the reefer containers needed connection with electricity otherwise the fruits would be rotted. Exporters were already facing problems, as they were paying four times higher freight rates amid a shortage of reefer containers and ships, Ahmed added.
Protests suspend kinnow exports
January 9, 2021
KARACHI: Kinnow exports were suspended due to a sit-in (dharna) on roads in Karachi, interior Sindh, and Punjab, traders said on Friday.
More than 400 containers with kinnow are standing on the roads in Sindh and Punjab.
Exporters would sustain huge losses if containers did not reach the ports, said Waheed Ahmed, patron-in-chief of Pakistan Fruits and Vegetablesâ Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association.
kinnow worth $4.6 million were being transported in these 400 containers and the reefer containers needed connection with electricity otherwise the fruits would be rotted.
Exporters were already facing problems, as they were paying four times higher freight rates amid a shortage of reefer containers and ships, he added.
Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood has said issues relating to the bottlenecks in export of fruit and vegetables will be taken up with the governments of Afghanistan, Indonesia and Iran. APP/File
KARACHI: Commerce Adviser Abdul Razak Dawood has said issues relating to the bottlenecks in export of fruit and vegetables will be taken up with the governments of Afghanistan, Indonesia and Iran.
During a meeting held in Islamabad a delegation of Pakistan Fruits and Vegetable Exporters Association, led by Patron-in-Chief Waheed Ahmed, informed the adviser that Kabul had imposed duty on Pakistani kinno.
The quota of Pakistani kinno by Indonesian government will expire on Dec 30 and if it isn’t taken up we will lose the market, Waheed said.