The Australian Department of Water, Agriculture, and Environment has approved two mango processing facilities in Sindh — Mustafa Agriculture Farm, Kotri, and Iftekhar Ahmed & Co, New Sabzi Mandi, Karachi — for export of mangoes from Pakistan. Commerce Advisor Abdul Razak Dawood announced the news via Twitter.
I congratulate the two companies of this achievement and commend the facilitation provided by our Consul General (Trade) @ashraf179 at Sydney in this regard. @waheedAmed@aliya_hamza #Pakistan #mangoes #Trade #Australia #Exports
— Abdul Razak Dawood (@razak_dawood) May 25, 2021
What Happened: So far, only two facilities, Horti Fresh and Paras Foods were approved for exporting mangoes into Australia. Pakistan had filed the request for approval of three more facilities around five years ago, two of which were finally approved now on the condition that all fresh mangoes being exported to Australia must undergo pre-export hot water dipping treatment (HWDT) or irradiation treatment in one of the approved facilities.
The Response: The news was welcomed enthusiastically by most people.
Great step, It will Help all Mango exporters from Pakistan to export Mangoes from Pakistan to foreign countries.
The government of Pakistan should also Open other facilites of mango exports in other countries.— Ali Murtaza Nizamani (@Alinizamanii) May 25, 2021
4 those who don't know, Australia has some of the toughest quarantine rules in the world, hence approving this is a big a achievement by Pak, Well Done , keep up the good work!
— Syed Samir Ahmad (@samirkkk) May 25, 2021
Oh Sir, that's an awesome achievement. Sane needs to be done for US. We need Pakistani AMB over here real bad. The mangos available in market are useless.
— Diwan Rayan Tahir (@diwanrayan1) May 25, 2021