PUNJAB KINNOW

About:

• This brand of kinnow, which is considered the ‘king fruit’ of Punjab, is also said to be “pesticide-free”.
  
  
• This has been done along the lines of the region-specific branding of several other fruits like the ‘Nagpur orange’ (which even has a GI tag) and ‘Australian kiwi’.
  
  
• Punjab being the largest producer of kinnow in the country, such branding will attract more consumers.
  
  
• The plant starts flowering in February-end, grows till July-August, turning from green to yellowish in September-October till the pre-harvesting stage in November. Kinnow crop harvesting starts in the first week of December in Punjab and continues till mid-March.