T he agriculture sector plays a major role in Pakistan's economy, accounting for 18.74% of GDP and providing 38.5% of employment (GoP, 2019). There are four sub-sectors in the agricultural sector, including crops, livestock, fisheries, and forestry. Pakistan's main agricultural exports include raw cotton, cotton yarn, fruit, fish, fish preparation, vegetable, rice, wheat, oilseed and sugar. In the farming sector, fruit production plays a vital role in Pakistan's econo-my and other crops (vegetable fruits and fodder) have share 2.1 percent of GDP (GoP, 2019). Nature has blessed Pakistan with the best ecological environment for growing large varieties of vegetables and fruits. Given Pakistan's natural topography, there is an increasing importance of the country's horticultural activities (Naseer et al., 2016;Raza et al., 2012). Among countries of the world, there are few countries that grow fruit in special cool climatic conditions (apple, cherries, plumps, pears), warm climatic condition (grapes, melon, apricots, pomegranates
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