As floods ravage Sindh, Pakistan imports vegetables from India
Against usual supply of 10-15 trucks (10 tonne per truck) of tomatoes per day four to five days back, its supply by land route has shot up to 70-80 trucks of tomatoes per day, exporters said. "We were sending just 20 trucks of tomatoes few days back. As there is heavy damage to vegetable crop in Pakistan by rains, the demand for Indian tomato increased sharply," Amritsar-based vegetable merchant Rajdeep Uppal Monday told Press Trust of India PTI news agency.
Entire lot of tomatoes is being sourced from Nasik in Maharashtra in order to supply to Pakistan. Red chilly is another commodity which is in demand from across the border, he said. Indian exporters are anticipating further orders of vegetables including lady finger and bitter gourd in next two weeks.
"We have inquiries for supply of lady finger and bitter gourd from Pakistan. We are hopeful of receiving sizeable orders for these vegetables in next 15 days from Pakistan based traders," Anil Mehra, another vegetable exporter said. Demand for Indian onion could also emerge from Pakistan if ban on export of bulb is withdrawn by Indian authorities.
Prices of vegetables in lower Sindh have risen sharply over the past weeks as supplies were affected following the floods.
The prices of vegetables have gone up by a 100%, and their supply by 50%. The price of onion increased by Rs20 per kilogramme, potatoes- Rs15, tomatoes- Rs20, and okra- Rs40.
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@Ali Tanoli: you pay for chinese defense equipment as well but you still sing praises of them so why cant we get a little love mr.tanoli?
@sindhpride
Has it ever occurred to you that Pakistan is a whole country. These vegetables are coming into ALL of Pakistan from India. The reason being that vegetables were destroyed in Sindh and Sindh supplies the WHOLE country with vegetables. Now if our domestic supply has been shortened then we have to order from somewhere. The supply isn't just going to Sindh but to ALL of Pakistan. Your ant-Punjabi rascism comes out at every point. Instead of blaming Punjabis for everything maybe you should be brave enough and dare to question your vadera saiNs the biggest of which is the President of Pakistan!
It sickens me that in these time even for such things as these where our country is in crises you people think in sucha narrow minded way. Get out of your regionalism and be a Pakistani!
@ Woohoo Its not free we paying for this vegies burger you macho arians.
@sindhpride: punjabis are afraid to go out how can they help you there are some aid campains going on in lahore
Hate mongers, Its called trade! If India doesn't wanna sell, fine! World is our oyester!
This has RAW conspiracy written all over it. I mean, this is just a ruse to feed the macho Pakistani Arabs with vegetables so that they avoid meat and get less macho and even less warrior like.
Eating from the kufr? Not a good idea RAW consipiracy?
This is good for neighbours !!! I recall last year or early this year, India had Onion crises, and they were getting truckloads from Pakistan . So this is good for business and long term relations, at least at grassroots level of trust and common good for the people too !
we should thank indians in hour of our need for helping us from starvation. People of sind jai hind.
Vegetable from India or Grass from pakistan itself!! Tough to choose but Late Bhutto has given principles to follow for pakistanis in tough times like these!