Pakistani Company Ramps Up Mango Exports To U.S.

A Pakistani exporter expects to sell 250 tonnes of mangoes to the U.S. and Canada this year.

Based in Karachi Pakistan, Farm Export Ltd. expects its shipments in North America in 2014 to be worth about $ 1 million, said Zulfikar Momin, an official Farm.

Following approval of the Department of irradiated mangoes from Pakistan Agriculture U.S., the country began exporting to the U.S. in 2011. Pakistan India and Thailand, which both started shipping irradiated mangoes to the U.S. in 2007.

First U.S. shipments Farm arrived by air June 13 in Texas. They were irradiated in the center of the USDA Animal and Health Inspection Service Animal Health in Gulfport, Mississippi, Momin said.

Early in the season, the fruit is sold in Houston and Dallas, Momin said. The company plans to expand its distribution to New York and Atlanta later in the season.

Fruit was sold at $ 25 per case, in mid-June, Momin said.

The company expects to ship by air every two weeks in August.

At the beginning of the season, Farm Sending Sindhri mangoes. Later, Anwar sent Ratols.

2,014 Expected volumes Farm would be a huge increase from 2013, when the U.S. received 8.3 tonnes of mangoes worth $ 17,000 all Pakistani sources, according to the Foreign Agricultural Service of USDA.

The U.S. imported 487,254 tonnes of mangoes worth $ 471 million from all sources in 2013.