Harvest Tradings Director Ahmad Jawad has said expats living in the US might once again wonder whether they will be able to buy Pakistani mangoes from their local grocery stores.
“Pakistan has been working for a long time to tap into the American market with its high quality mangoes. The conditions and requirements set for Pakistani mango exports to the US have made it a costly matter.”
Although Pakistan has its own irradiation plant in Lahore – M/s Paras Foods – under a joint venture of Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Company (PHDEC), but it has not been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) yet.
However, Islamabad and Washington agreed that irradiation was the best treatment. To facilitate this, the USDA created a first of its kind system to allow safe import and irradiation of Pakistani mangoes in the US, but this option is economically not viable for Pakistani exporters.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 13th, 2014.
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We have reduced our export , its better to limit other than getting banned.
@Rex Minor: Fully agree. The quality of education, workmanship and competitiveness changes fast when a Pakistani goes abroad to compete with the foreign country's standards but why not to do this right in Pakistan. We must strive to be independent instead of being dependent.
@Joan,
I am amused by your comments and wondering about your intellect level. The Pakistani mangoes exported to US are not for US politicians etc , the Pakistanis and Indians living in US are the major consumers who are willing to pay a decent premium on good quality mangoes. eg. $4/kg of mangoes. :)
@AnisAqeel: Besides you people must improve your education institutions which provide education and developments for students not to world but to a recognised European standard! You have highly skilled and innovative people in the country, not only in sport articles but also in the inustry which caters for hospital instruments and tools used in surgeries. The Governmen should subsidise when necessary in early phase to compete against world competitors.
Rex Minor
What have the US done to seserve Pakistani Mangos? After all they almost destroyed Pakistan by manipulating their government to serve theirs and forget about the ordinary Pakistani citizen. They continue to drop drones in Waziristan and kill innocent civillians with it. I feel sorry for British people who have missed out on Pakistani mangoes this year. After all the British built Pakistan while the Americans broke it.
For $35 a box of 6 green chonsa mangos? I am better eating Mexican mangos 68 cents a piece.
@Rehan & @unbelievable if you feel that is story is not newsworthy than kindly move on....the rest of us do not share your shallow dump opinion.
One of the most corrupt political system in force in pakistan you kill someone paied just 500000 five hundards thousands of pak-ruppies you are free! a great corruption is every where in pakistan and my friends you are talking about poor mangos!
Lots of Mango articles - as I recall your entire World wide Mango export market is shy of $60 million - probably not worth "lots of article"
Please get off from excuse culture that is spread to our bones and learn to compete in the open markets for an independent economic culture. If other countries can make money and huge profits with same stringent conditions, we can too. We can't make good films so ban Indian, can't compete in cotton and fabric industries so beg quotas and subsidies and the examples are plenty. Why can't we take example of soccer ball industry in Pakistan that is competing with world class manufacturers without using child labor and still making profits, because they learnt to follow rules of the game and modernised to world standards.
I feel dumber after reading this article. What is the point of it?