Sour times for Swat Valley fruit growers
Pakistan area is blessed with fruit orchards – but a third of produce spoils because of primitive infrastructure.
Published On 23 Jun 2013
Pakistan’s Swat Valley is mostly known for violence, but it has a much sweeter side.
Few outsiders know that the area has abundant fruit orchards, with plums, apricots, peaches and cherries among the regions specialities.
But a third of the produce is going to waste because of poor storage and transport infrastructure. Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Source: Al Jazeera