Pakistani fruit, vegetable exports grow in 2014-15
During the period from July-June 2014-15, fresh fruit exports witnessed and increase of 0.85 percent as compared to same period of last year as bout 706,254 metric tons of fruits worth US$ 439.006 million exported.
According the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), exports of fruit from the country during financial year 2013-14 was recorded at 784,378 metric tons valuing US$ 435.293 million.
Meanwhile, vegetable exports during the period under review recorded 11.21 percent increase as against the same period of last year and reached at 712,524 metric tons costing US$ 232.533 million, it added.
The exports of vegetable from the country during same period of financial 2013-14 was recorded at 568,079 metric tons valuing US$ 209.092 million, the data revealed.
However, during the period from July-June 2014-15, exports of leguminous vegetable (pluses) remained on decreasing track and recorded 100 decrease in its exports as it went down from 3,227 metric tons worth US$ 0.02 million to zero level.
Source: Daily Pakistan