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Daily Times
July 16, 2021
Secretary agriculture Saqib Ali Ateel has directed agriculture scientists and extension officials to develop an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) model for mango and make friendly pests’ help available to the King of Fruits to meet international market demands for its bulk export and to attract higher foreign exchange earnings.
“We need to shift from traditional practice of relying on pesticides to kill mango enemy pests to IMP model if we want to increase mango exports,” Saqib said in a meeting chaired other day to discuss an IMP model for mango crop. He said, mango was the identity of south Punjab and a potent source of foreign exchange earnings adding that farmers need to employ modern technology and adopt new methods keeping in view the market demand and weather conditions.
âBumper mango production expected this yearâ
Abdul Ghaffar Grewal, the Director of the Mango Research Institute, has said that a bumper production of mangoes like Sindhary, Chaunsa, and Samar Bahasht is expected this year. He stated that the Pakistan government has set a target to export 160,000 tons of mango and similarly, generation of 120 million dollars by export of the value-added products of the king of fruits.
Abdul Ghaffar added that the Ministry of National Food Security established a special committee comprised of officials from agriculture and some other departments to conduct regular meetings and immediately remove all sorts of obstacles in the way of mango exports.