Traders irked by ban on jaggery export Stress need for encouraging production to aid farmers, exports Jaggery (Gur) manufacturers have lamented the lack of government focus on the sweetener’s production and imposition of ban on its export, stressing that its production and export can benefit Pakistan as well as small-scale farmers. “Sugar industry is pressurising the government not to focus on jaggery units,” said Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) President Zulfikar Thaver in a statement on Wednesday. “It is also trying to discourage small and medium-scale sugarcane growers from marketing and selling jaggery through wholesalers.” Thaver added that there was ample demand for the product in Pakistan and abroad, and urged the government to review the Sugarcane Act in order to incorporate jaggery production and export into it.