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September 10, 2021

Record crops likely to reduce food imports in 2022

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to harvest bumper crops of key commodities in the current season, a prospect likely to cool down the country's recent rampant appetite for food imports heading into 2022, a minister said on Thursday."This year has been remarkable for agriculture sector of Pakistan, and our economy got a boost with the record agricultural production, indicating a lesser reliance on food imports in 2021-22," Syed Fakhar Imam, minister of National Food Security and Research told the...