Why fruits are so expensive in Pakistan?

[YeBeWarned]

fruits of Patience ... Sabr ke Phal hai bhai, expensive to hun gay

 

[mdcp]

No proper:

cold storage
freezer transport
fruit market with cold storage
Lack of farming technology
Lack of fertilizer and medicine
Poor infrastructure and poor packaging are the reasons of high fruit prices.

We need to recognize it as an industry and should facilitate farmers for better productivity

 

[Śakra]

Lack of infrastructure means transportation and spoilage costs are high.

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

seasonal fruits and vegetables are cheaper in Pakistan and much better in taste but yea when their season is out then they sell it more expensive than rest of the world. I usually get 7 apple for one pound in fruit market which is 134 Rupees and you also get 2 melon for one pound, 6 pears for one pound, 5 big banana for one pound , 2 mango for one pound etc . Uk is not even agriculture land and most fruits and vegetables are imported from spain, isreal and elsewhere.

Its not just fruits but prices of Milk, eggs, juices, drinks, Jam, ice cream, fish, choclate etc is much more expensive in Pakistan as compare to UK . For example you get 4 magnum ice cream for £1.60 in here while you get only one or probably 2 magnum ice cream in Pakistan for this price . even Tesco selling 10 KG atta for £3 pound these days .

 

[BATMAN]

I think its because Pakistanis have high purchasing power hence more demand and higher prices.

It's about making Pakistan a model Islamic Republic.
Where Islam,... somehow evolved into turban colors, beard, (fake) namoos e risalat. Infact, no one know one knows meaning of risalat.
Shameful state of affairs... not difficult to judge a nation, when you see public breaking laws publically in streets and roads, actually it seems no one have a clue of either state or Islamic laws.

 

[BetterPakistan]

Its because of no check & balance.

 

[Counterpunch]

Salutes SIRS G AS USUAL ..have a great day . who knows when blocked inside or out side ....or deleted ID ..to make english theirs ....never say they even knows this much ......

REST , because No check from where population is puring IN ... along all ARMED FORCES THE CHECK ITSELF is full with T T P .......just a check behind will FIND EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF SHIT ..in all of your rows along thumb impression ..THE REAL RAD_ UL - FASAD BEGINS .....otherwise just T T P GAME .....enjoying its time ..wasting APP LOOGZ....

Not for what you wrote, but for how you wrote it - you should be sent to Adyala jail for life time. This is terrorism man, plain terrorism

Its not a country problem.. its a people problem.. businessmen are making a ton of extra money by charging 20% to 50% more ....

It's all dirty business..everywhere...everytime! i wonder what are the price committees or competition commissions even doing. There are huge cartels formed in almost every sector which control the prices as per their free will

To quote 3 examples of how the filthy dirty businessmen play with the prices

1) 3 years ago Pakistan had excessive domestic peanut production. Farmer was happy (we grow in our native area) that they will get good money as government will also buy for exporting. But it happened that 'someone' in the power had a product produced (or out of stores) in abundance on his lands and he wanted to export it. Contacted India. Yes India. India that year also had abundant peanut production. Indian side cut a deal that they will buy that 'someone's product provided he buys back the abundant peanuts from India. Deal went through for importing Indian peanuts despite there being exportable abundance in-house, as a result it became dirt cheap in the country. We in Pakistan had to store peanuts in poultry sheds for protecting it from rain and rotting. Some survived. Some couldn't manage to cover the costs even

2) Bananas. Some years ago, a similar deal was cut whereby Pakistan had to import bananas from India against someones abundant crop. Indian bananas were costlier compared to our local produce. It is on record that the local banana was left to rott in Sindh fruit market and not allowed to be sent up country until the point the banana prices rose high enough in the country for Indian banana to make a business case. For the first time in our history we had the bananas selling at more than 150 / dozen. The trend continues now

3) Medicine. Now the same certain family has decided to milk the medicine industry through its cooperation with Turkish investors. The bill has been passed which now requires a category-A pharmacist to be present in the medicine store as opposed to previously applicable dispensing level diploma holders or pharmacy assistant degree holder. Consequently 100s of 1000s of people are on the verge of being kicked out of the market and left unemployed without a backup plan offered by the government. The plan might look good technically but the intention behind it is to milk the medicine industry. Intention is to have their own medicine manufacturing factories selling only through their own pharmacies, at the same time banning all other type of pharmacies who cannot afford a category-A pharmacist on the counter.

......and the list goes on

 

[Srinivas]

One Indian rupee is equal to two Pakistani rupees .

 

[Baby Leone]

One Indian rupee is equal to two Pakistani rupees .

It's not 2 it's 1.5

 

[RoadRunner401]

Fruits are expensive in Pakistan for one very simple reason GREED

 

[Asian.Century]

I have to agree with this Pakistanis current government backed by Army, should take a strong notice, why the hell prices of fruits, vegetables, every day items so expensive>? what the hell is government doing? what the hell is Punjab government doing? where is Sindh government.? where is Gilgit0 Baltisan government? where is KPK government doing?

this is treacherous, getting profits by government on Pakistani 220 million misery!!!