Mangoes to sweeten Indo-Pak ties

Sanjay Sharma / TNN / Mar 31, 2008, 01:49 IST

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The Pakistani mango that has been winning the battle of taste in the European market against its Indian counterpart will this season sweeten the relations between the two neighbours.

CHANDIGARH: The Pakistani mango that has been winning the battle of taste in the European market against its Indian counterpart will this season sweeten the relations between the two neighbours.
"I will import a few trucks of chausa variety of mango from Multan and sell it in the north Indian market for the first time," Ankush Aggarwal, the Managing Director of Punjab Agri Foods Parks Ltd and Punjab Agri Ventures Ltd, told TOI on Sunday.
Aggarwal had a meeting with a Pakistani trader during a four-day conference of farmers and experts from the farm sector from the two countries here. The conference and field visits of Pakistani farmers to Indian farms concluded on Friday.
Aggarwal, a mango exporter to European market, said the Pakistani fruit was preferred to the produce from India because of its better quality and lower price in England. "The Pakistani mango is certainly superior," he said.

Pakistani farmers could export the mango when the Indian mango season ends in July and August. "That way it will not hit Indian mango growers," Aggarwal said.
Jang Bahadur Singh Sangha, who exports potato seeds to Pakistan, said Pakistani farmers have asked for permission to allow exports of mango through the Wagah border. "We tried Pakistan��s maize and its growing techniques is paying rich dividends in India. The results, so far, have been fantastic."
Expressing similar sentiments, Devinder Pal Singh Dosanjh from Wadala village, Jalandhar, added: "We have a lot to learn from Pakistan in growing citrus fruits and cotton crops. The varieties grown in Pakistan are much more superior."

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