PRESENTED TO: Sir Mashooq Pasha
6/14/2013
Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University
Jawwad farooq & Anmol latif (BBA)-1
1. OVERVIEW OF MANGO SECTOR
Mango is an important fruit of Sindh, grown in middle and upper districts of the province. Commonly grown varieties of mangoes in Sindh are Sindhri, Saroli, Dasehri, Almas, Langra, Chaunsa, Anwar Ratol, Sunera, Bengal Pali, Laal Badshah, Neelam and Desi. About 80-85% of the mango production of Sindh is that of Sindhri variety.
1.1 Mango Production
Mango is the second largest produced fruit in Pakistan after citrus. Pakistan has shown a healthy growth in mango production during the past five decades. The production grew from 130,000 tons in 1958 to 1,754,000 tons in the year 2008. In 2007, Pakistan was the sixth largest mango producing country after India, China, Mexico, Indonesia and Thailand. Pakistan’s share in global mango production was 5.7%.
Mango is primarily grown in two provinces; Sindh and Punjab. In 2008, Sindh contributed 21% to the national mango production. During this year, total mango production in Sindh was 368,070 tons from a total cultivated area of 128,690 acres. Five largest mango producing districts of Sindh (in that order) are Sanghar, Nausheroferoz, Tando Allahyar, Mirpurkhas and Matiari; accounting for 62% of the total mango production from Sindh.
1.2. Mango Export
Pakistan is the sixth largest exporter of mangoes in the world. In 2007-08, Pakistan exported 61,632 tons of mangoes; while in 2006-07, export figure was 105,210 tons. Pakistan’s compounded annual growth rate of mango exports during the period 2000-07 remained as 3.2%, which was much lower than the export market growth rate of 9.0% during the same time period. This indicates that Pakistan has not been able to tap the growing potential of fresh mango export market. Two main mango varieties exported from Pakistan are Sindhri and Chaunsa; Sindhri being the main variety of