Staff Reporter
Islamabad
“Pakistan’s share in rice imports of Egypt is only around 0.58 million USD against their total imports of 49.34 million USD”
Pakistan and Egypt can cooperate in the field of cotton research. This was said by Federal Minister for National Food Security and research, Syed Fakhar Imam while meeting Ambassador of Arabic Republic of Egypt to Pakistan, Mr Tarek Dahrough on Thursday. Federal Minister also gave the proposal of a MoU between Egypt and Pakistan in the field of research, extension and agricultural education. Syed Fakhar Imam also mentioned that Pakistan imports its mango to Afghanistan, UAE, Oman and Iran. He mentioned that Pakistan has good Phytosanitary systems.
The Egyptian side under its Official Development Assistance offers fully funded capacity building training programmes and Master’s Programmes to Pakistani professional and scientists.
Economic Affairs Division (EAD) finalizes nominations from the Federal and Provincial Governments through its Foreign Trainings Committee. As per data available with Trade development Authority of Pakistan, there is huge potential for export of rice but it has certain trade restrictions by the Egyptian Government.
Major competitors of Pakistan for rice export to Egypt are India, Turkey, China and Vietnam. Pakistan’s share in rice imports of Egypt is only around 0.58 million USD against their total imports of 49.34 million USD. Secondly there is a huge potential for export of frozen boneless bovine meat to Egypt (as Egypt imports boneless meat of an annual worth around USD 1.0 billion).
