Rice exports from the country during first 07 months of current financial year increased by 11.16% as compared to exports of the corresponding period of last year.

Overall, the prices of staple cereals and non-cereal food commodities experienced negligible to slight fluctuations in January 2022 when compared to the previous month’s prices.

There’s good news about rice exports. And there is bad news as well. In the first seven months of current fiscal year, ie between July 2021 and January 2022, the overall rice export earnings rose to about $1.287 billion from around $1.158 billion in the year-ago period. This, of course, is good news.

Pakistan’s Basmati rice exports grew by 8.97% month-on-month to $58.086 million in January 2022, as compared with $49.161 million in January 2021, WealthPK reported.

A total of 1,731 tons of rice worth $2.3 million were exported from Iran to 27 countries during the current Iranian year’s first 10 months (March 21, 2021-Jan. 20), according to the spokesperson of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.

Rice exports from the country during first 07 months of current financial year increased by 11.16% as compared the exports of the corresponding period of last year.

Rice exports from the country increased by 11.16 per cent to 2.179 million tonnes in the first seven months of current financial year (7MFY22) from 2.179m tonnes in the same period last year, trade data shared by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Friday.

Pakistan’s exports of goods and services will exceed $38 billion in the ongoing fiscal year, which is for the first time in the country’s history, projected Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) Chief Executive Arif Ahmad Khan.

Pakistan’s export of rice to China (HS Code 1006) crossed $400 million in 2021, up 133 percent year on year, and in the first five months of the last year once Pakistan remained the largest rice supplier to China, according to the official data from the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC).

Ambassador of Romania to Pakistan Nicolae Goia called on Minister of National Food Security Syed Fakhar Imam in Islamabad today