Tomato Clause Samples

Tomato. Tomatoes are grown throughout the year during summer and winter seasons (off-season) as tunnel farming. The area of Pakistan under tomato cultivation in 2009-10 was 53.4 thousand hectares and the yield 561.89 thousand tons. Tomatoes are highly perishable vegetable have a limited storage life and can be kept stored only for a short period of 7-10 days. The major portion of tomatoes produced in D.I Khan and Quetta, because of diversified land topography and has the advantage to produce tomato almost year-round. Productivity gap, post-harvest handling, storage and processing are the major constraints faced by the tomato value chain. The supply abundance creates large economic losses for the growers as most of the summer crop tomatoes are harvested at the same time. Some of the major areas identified for project interventions during 2012-13 may include support for productivity improvement, post-harvest handling, storage and processing.