Pakistan fourth largest rice exporter in world

LAHORE : Pakistan is the fourth largest rice exporter in the world and is a source of earning foreign exchange as Pakistan exports more than two billion rupees’ rice every year. These views were expressed by Provincial Minister for Agriculture Syed Jahanian Gardezi while addressing the ceremony under the National Plan for increasing per acre production of paddy here in Daska district Sialkot. “Our Basmati rice is famous with its taste and fragrance all over the world. Under the Agriculture Emergency program of the Prime Minister, subsidies of Rs6 billion and 3.2 million is being provided to farmers on approved varieties of paddy seed, agriculture machinery and pesticides” he added.