Food export increases by 25.55pc

ISLAMABAD – Export of food group, during the last nine months of current financial year, has registered an increase of 25.55 percent compared to the same period of last financial year. Food commodities, worth $3.083 billion, were exported during the period from July to March 2010-11 as against $2.455 billion in the year 2009-10, said figures released by the Federal Bureau of Statistic on Tuesday.
Export of basmati rice increased by 4.67 percent during the period under review, as basmati rice of $672.793 million was exported compared to $642.76 million of rice exported in the last financial year.