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Export of vegetables, fruits and the economy.

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Pakistani fruit and vegetables are being demanded in almost all over the world. Presently Pakistan is exporting fruits and vegetables to the USA. the Europe. A Middle East, Far East. India and Sri Lanka. Mango, Kinno. apple. dates. pine nuts. oranges and guava are few well exported fruits and among vegetables are potato. onion. mushroom, garlic, chilly etc. It is observed by looking at the data, Pakistan in heavily relying on one market for each item. For example, Dubai is the biggest market for Pakistani Mango following England and Saudi Arabia. Sri Lanka is the only biggest market for Pakistani fresh apple.

Agriculture being the largest sector of Pakistan can help improve trade balance of payment. It's a large sector and requires to be analyzed sectors wise especially few less touched area. Therefore I have chosen fruits and vegetables sector.

Horticulture Market: There is a large horticulture export market and Pakistan though an agricultural economy is only marginally present in this market. The size of the global horticulture market was worth $77 billion in 1998.

Out of a total world horticulture import market of $77 billion in 1998, the fruit and vegetable segments constituted a $60 billion market while fruit and vegetable juices contributed $6 billion. Cut flowers market accounted for $5 billion; bulbs contributed 44 billion while spices had a share of $2 billion. For percentage shares of these products categories see table-i.

Fruits had taken the lead with a 40 percent share and vegetables followed this with a 38 per cent share while fruits and vegetable juices contributed another 8 per cent. Thus together fruits and vegetables make a major component (86 per cent then horticulture market. Flowers at 6 per cent then bulbs follow this at 59 per cent and finally smallest share of spices at 3 per cent.

Nature has bestowed upon Pakistan a land and climate conducive to growth of a wide spectrum of fruits and vegetables. The produce of fruit and vegetable in Pakistan comes from approximately 811,800 hectares or about 4 per cent of the country's cultivated areas The major fruits are citrus, mangoes, dates, bananas and gauss Out of total annual agriculture production of the country., the province of Punjab contributes 59.6 per cent, Sindh 8.6 per cent, Balochistan 25.6 per cent and NWFP contributed 6.2%.

Pakistani fruit and vegetables are being demanded in almost all over the world. Presently Pakistan is exporting fruits and vegetables to the USA, the Europe, Middle East, Far East, India and Sri Lanka. Mango, kinno, apple, dates, pine nuts, oranges and guava are few well exported fruits and among vegetables are potato, onion, mushroom, garlic,...