Pakistan first state of the art potato washing and grading machine was installed in Karachi, which could help boost potato’s dwindling export during the current year. The machine was partly built in India and some of its parts in Mexico.
Pakistani exporters fail to capitalise on the advantage of a quality bumper crop because of its decades old methods of manual packaging and grading, which deterred international buyers from placing huge orders and instead they preferred Indian potato.
Abdul Wahid, a leading fruit exporter, said the machine is the first compact tool, which will not only wash dust of the potato but also perform the function of grading.