Fruits export up 57pc in July-August

ISLAMABAD: Export of fresh fruits registered an increase of 56.99 percent during first two months of current financial year as compared to corresponding period of the last financial year.

About 74,297 metric tons of fresh fruits of different kinds worth $61.586 million were exported during the period from July to August 2016. The fruit exports were recorded at 49,036 million tons, valuing $39.230 million during the July-August period of 2015, said the data of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.  However, vegetable exports decreased 43.11 percent during the period under review and it was recorded at 73,944 metric tons worth $18.849 million as against the exports of 127,810 metric tons, valuing $33.131 million during the same period of the last financial year.  In first two months of the current financial year, no quantity of leguminous vegetables (pulses) was exported as compared to the same period of the last year.

Meanwhile, wheat exports from the country witnessed 100 percent increase in the first two months of the current financial year as around 200 metric tons of wheat was exported during the period. The country earned $0.77 million by exporting the surplus wheat to different countries as the export of the commodity was recorded at zero level during the first two month of the last financial year.