Horticulture

BMI’s main areas of Investment in Horticulture are:

  • Fruit Processing Plants
  • Apple Treatment Plants
  • Date Processing Plants
  • Tomato Paste Manufacturing
  • Fried/ Dried Onion Plants
  • Cut-flower Business & Floriculture
  • Plantation of Palm Trees and Processing
  • Cool Chains

Our Date Processing Plant

  • 63,955 tonnes of dates worth US $28 million were exported
  • The share of dried dates in this amount being 70%
  • 11% of the production was exported in 2018

Area in Hectares

  • Apple is an important crop in Balochistan in terms of the people employed, the value of the output, and the revenue it generates.
  • The apple export of BMI during the last years is only on the average: 1,850 tonnes per year constituting 0.5% of its total production.

BMI focuses on Cool Chains Implementation

  • To develop Farm-to-Market Infrastructure
  • To promote the exports of fresh fruits and vegetables
  • To Attain the maximum value for the produce of Balochistan

Central areas of Investment in Horticulture are:

  1. Processing plants:
  • Fruit processing plant
  • Apple processing plant
  • Date Processing Plant
  1. Manufacturing plants:
  • Tomato Paste Manufacturing
  • Fried/ Dried Onion Plants
  1. Floriculture & cut flower production
  2. Plantation of Palm Trees and it’s Processing
  3. Cool Chains