Pakistan rice exports may hit 4 MT in 2010/11-trade

A senior food ministry official on Tuesday, however, low-balled REAP's estimate and said output would be about 5 million tonnes. — File Photo

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top rice export body said on Tuesday it aims to export 4 million tonnes in fiscal year 2010/11, about 1 million tonnes more than previous estimates made after destructive floods in August.

Irfan Ahmed Sheikh, chairman of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP), said total rice production would be nearly 6 million tonnes.

Pakistan eying 25m ton wheat production this year: Aulakh

"Wheat is being sown in the country with expectations that it will cover 22.34 million acre area this Rabi season." — File Photo

MULTAN: Punjab agriculture minister Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh has said that wheat production target for the Rabi season 2010-11 has been set at 25 million ton, some 1.5 million ton above the assessed national food requirement at 23.5 million ton.

While talking to newsmen at Fatehpur in district Layyah, Aulakh said that Punjab produces almost 76 per cent of the national wheat production and sowing has already begun in the province, according to a release issued by media liaison unit of Punjab agriculture department on Monday.