52nd mango and summer fruit festival kicks off
Over 150 varieties of mamgoes were displayed during a festival. PHOTO: MOHAMMAD NOMAN/EXPRESS
HYDERABAD: With around 150 varieties of mangoes on display, a 52nd annual mango and summer fruit festival kicked off in Mirpurkhas district on Friday evening. As many as 70 stalls displaying mangoes varying in taste, colour and nourishment captivated visitors.
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“Sindh is a heart of mango production,” pronounced Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal, who inaugurated a three-day event. He announced that a identical festival will shortly be organized during a Expo Centre in Karachi to foster a fruit.
Agriculture Secretary Sajid Jamal Abro highlighted a trade intensity of mangoes. But, he added, that mango farmers need training and support to marketplace their furnish in grown countries.
The varieties put on arrangement embody Sindhri, Saroli, Anwar Ratol, Neelam, Sham Sundar, Anmol, Zaafran, Almas and Langro, among others. Farmers from Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Hyderabad, Ghotki, Tando Allahyar and other districts of Sindh participated in a event.
The festival is being organized by a Sindh Horticulture Research Institute.
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Land Scam
The home apportion pronounced he will control an exploration into a purported try to palm over 76 acres of land in Mirpurkhas that belongs to a Sindh Horticulture Research Institute for a Benazir Bhutto Basti. He positive that if a supervision officials are found to be concerned in a wrongdoing, disciplinary movement will be taken.
The hospital conducts investigate on several crops on a land in question, including mangoes and other fruits. The hospital has reportedly created to a provincial supervision that trees from a land are being chopped down to transparent space for a housing project.
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