Staff Reporter
Karachi
The Climatic Change & Lockdown have severely affected the mango crops. The mango crops in Sindh & Punjab is likely to get matured after a delay of two weeks. The season of mango slides further to a couple of weeks due to non-availability of required level of temperature and humid climate.
The PFVA, keeping these factors in view has requested the Ministry of Commerce to extend the date of export of mango by further twelve days fixing it at 1st June 2020.
The Climatic change has started taking heavy toll of it’s devastating effects by impacting major agriculture crops besides Fruits as well – Waheed shared. The mango crop usually gets mature by middle of May; however, it’s strongly anticipated to be delayed by two weeks this year & exporting pre-matured mango would not be beneficial.
On other hand due to lockdown adequate preparations have not yet been made related to export of mango as transportation for carrying labourers to the mango orchards and essential arrangements for packing still have a big question mark!
