{"id":35758,"date":"2018-11-01T11:39:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35758"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:09:40","slug":"planes-missing-fruits-to-india-rot-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/planes-missing-fruits-to-india-rot-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Planes missing, fruits to India rot in Kabul:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/india-afghan-air-trade-facing-tough-times\/article19447858.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planes missing, fruits to India rot in Kabul<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weeks after the India-Afghanistan air corridor trade project was launched, the project has run into rough weather.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Explanation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The matters got worse when tonnes of fresh fruits, including apricots and melons, were left rotting at the Kabul airport.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The flight chartered by Afghanistan\u2019s national carrier, Ariana airlines, on July 20, 2017 failed to arrive on time, and the fruits were not moved to cold storage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angered by the losses, traders, who say as much as 120 tonnes of fruits, are still waiting to be transported from the airport, demanded that the government take swift action or they would find it hard to continue exporting perishable produce to India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The reason behind:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the issues, say exporters, is the lack of \u201ccargo screening machines\u201d that necessitates packaging and repackaging, and the lack of adequate cold storage facilities at the airport.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the Indian side, traders say they worry about clearing the perishable goods quickly through Indian customs, and the process is yet to be streamlined.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Procedural delays were supposed to be sorted out within a month of the corridor starting, but there are yet to be resolved.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planes missing, fruits to India rot in Kabul:\u00a0 Context: Weeks after the India-Afghanistan air corridor trade project was launched, the project has run into rough weather. Explanation: The matters got worse when tonnes of fresh fruits, including apricots and melons, were left rotting at the Kabul airport. The flight chartered by Afghanistan\u2019s national carrier, Ariana&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/planes-missing-fruits-to-india-rot-in-kabul\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planes missing, fruits to India rot in Kabul:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704856801},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}