After paddy, the surplus fruit and vegetable Challenge

Glut, price crash, anger. The situation repeats itself every year that Punjab’s kinnows and potatoes see a bumper harvest. More than half of Punjab’s total fruit and vegetable production of 50 lakh tonnes comprises the two crops. While 57 per cent of its 14 lakh tonnes annual production of fruits comprises kinnows, potatoes make up 64 per cent of its 36 lakh tonnes vegetable production. But the state exports merely 1,000 quintals of its total fruit and vegetable production of 50 lakh tonnes.

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