Ensuring Quality: Kinnow processing initiated
The rate of 40kg kinnow has been finalised at Rs800
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SARGODHA:
Processing of kinnow has started in Sargodha to ensure maximum export and growers receive best rates for their yields. Kinnow is being processed for export to international markets as its season will continue till the end of April, said Citrus Research Institute Sargodha (CRIS) Director Muhammad Nawaz Maiken while talking to APP. He informed that the bumper crop of quality kinnow was being expected in the season. Maiken expressed with satisfaction that last year almost 220,000 tons of kinnow was exported, and hoped that the current season would also contribute handsomely to the national exchequer through healthy exports. The rate of 40kg kinnow has been finalised at Rs800 by the factory owners and growers.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 25th, 2017.
Processing of kinnow has started in Sargodha to ensure maximum export and growers receive best rates for their yields. Kinnow is being processed for export to international markets as its season will continue till the end of April, said Citrus Research Institute Sargodha (CRIS) Director Muhammad Nawaz Maiken while talking to APP. He informed that the bumper crop of quality kinnow was being expected in the season. Maiken expressed with satisfaction that last year almost 220,000 tons of kinnow was exported, and hoped that the current season would also contribute handsomely to the national exchequer through healthy exports. The rate of 40kg kinnow has been finalised at Rs800 by the factory owners and growers.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 25th, 2017.