The wholesalers are reporting around 40 per cent drop in sales in Punjab, with truckloads of fruit waiting for days in markets before finding a buyer. Reuters/File
LAHORE: Pakistan’s fruit market is tailspinning into chaos. The wholesalers are reporting around 40 per cent drop in sales in Punjab, with truckloads of fruit waiting for days in markets before finding a buyer – mostly at a price far less than farmers and wholesalers’ calculations.
There has been no price panic typical of the holy month; conversely, for the first time in last many years, prices of a number of fruits (melon, strawberry) are dropping, at least at wholesale level.