MANGO Production – Pakistan Ranked 4th in the World In Pakistan, the area under mango cultivation is 167.5 thousand hectares with a production of 1,732 thousand tones being the second major fruit crop of Pakistan after citrus. It ranks fourth in the world for the production of the king of the fruits. Nature has blessed Pakistan with agro-climatic conditions which permit quality production of mango. Per hectare average yield of Pakistan is 11.20 tones/hac which is on the low side as compared to the other major mango producing countries of the world most important commercial cultivars of Pakistan are Dashehari, Anwar Ratul, Langra, Chaunsa, Sindhri, Maldha, Fajri. More than half of mango area (104.9 thousand hectares) lies in Punjab followed by Sindh (50.0 thousand hectares) with minor acreage in Baluchistan (1.4 thousand hectares) and NWFP (0.3 thousand hectares). Districts which are important regarding cultivation of mango in Pakistan are Bahawalpur, Dera Ismail Khan, Hyderabad, Multan, Khanewal Sahiwal, Muzaffar Garh, Sadiqabad, Rahim Yar Khan, Vehari and Thatta
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:38:40 +0000
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