Awareness session on vegetable dehydration held
The National Productivity Organisation (NPO) arranged an awareness session on vegetable dehydration to improve farmers’ income and improve exports.
General Manager NPO Wajeeha Ahmed Abbasi while addressing the participants at Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) remarked that NPO was imparting information about vegetable dehydration across the country.
The government is committed to enhancing vegetable exports, she added. Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Mian Rashid Iqbal stated that there were immense opportunities in foreign markets for vegetable export.
He lamented that about 50 percent of vegetables perished due to a lack of different facilities. He stated that vegetables’ dehydration was a good project and it would surely help not only save the vegetables but also lead to improvement in exports. “We can work on solar-dryer”, he added. He advocated training programmes for the promotion of the new project. He also promised to extend maximum support and cooperation in holding training programmes.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2024.