Islamabad, August 28, 2021 (PPI-OT):Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for encouraging the rice exporters to get maximum share in the international market. The prime minister expressed these views while presiding over a meeting of the National Export Development Board in Islamabad.
The meeting was told that with vast prospects of improvement in rice exports sector, the current 2 billion US dollar target of rice exports could be taken to 5 billion dollar by increasing the per acre production of the commodity through laser levelling of land and adopting modern means of cultivation and harvesting.
The prime minister directed to put special focus on the production of organic and brown rice and encourage the people for its use so that the increasing trends of sugar disease in the country could be checked. He also directed the authorities concerned to take all possible measures for the effective implementation of Long-Term Financing and export refinancing scheme for enhancing the exports of rice.
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