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The Harvest Tradings CEO Ahmad Jawad has said that Pakistan, though a major citrus producer, is still lagging behind in modern techniques when it comes to enhancing the value of citrus exports. He said that only around 10pc of total production is exported. Ahmad Jawad said that Pakistan produces about two million tons of citrus annually, 90pc of which is kinnow. This year witnessed less crop with production of kinnows going down to 1.8 million tons and the export target was hardly fixed at 200,000 tons (2012-13), he said adding that for this small target, kinnow export faced drastic issues on three accounts.
