{"id":176291,"date":"2022-05-19T19:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=176291"},"modified":"2022-05-19T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:47:12","slug":"pakistan-cuts-export-target-for-its-famed-mangoes-as-heat-hits-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=176291","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan cuts export target for its famed mangoes as heat hits output"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, May 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan has reduced this year&#8217;s export target for its mangoes prized for their sweetness and flavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrival of summer means the season of mangoes in South Asia, and Pakistan grows a huge variety of &#8220;the king of tropical fruits&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaunsa, Langra, Sindhri, Dussehri and Anwer Ratol are among some of the popular&nbsp;succulent&nbsp;mango varieties exported to various countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, higher temperatures and weather-related problems have caused a decline in mango output, forcing Pakistani exporters to slash their export target by 25,000 tonnes to 125,000 tonnes for the current season,&nbsp;according to a&nbsp;<em>Dawn<\/em>&nbsp;news report on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Average temperatures were between 37 and 42 degrees Celsius in mid-March, higher than around 34 degrees Celsius last year, the report noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s mango production is expected to be 900,000 tonnes compared with 1.8 million tonnes in 2021, Waheed Ahmed of the All-Pakistan Fruit and Vege\u00adtable Exporters Asso\u00adciation said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, May 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan has reduced this year&#8217;s export target for its mangoes prized for their sweetness and flavour. The arrival of summer means the season of mangoes in South Asia, and Pakistan grows a huge variety of &#8220;the king of tropical fruits&#8221;. Chaunsa, Langra, Sindhri, Dussehri and Anwer Ratol are among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":176292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176293,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176291\/revisions\/176293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}