Tag: rice production
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Export-quality rice production at risk: Rising theft incidents targeting water pumps, transformers
Pakistan is currently facing a major threat to its export-quality rice production as a result of extensive theft of high-voltage electric wires, transformers, and water pumps. This theft has left vast stretches of rice-producing land along the Lahore to Sheikhupura Motorway without access to tube-well water, precisely during the critical rice sowing season.
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Pakistan faces second-highest food price inflation in South Asia: World Bank report
According to the World Bank’s “Food Security Update,” the consumer price inflation for food items in Pakistan in February 2023 on a year-on-year basis was 45.1 per cent, which is the highest in South Asia after Sri Lanka, which experienced 54.4 per cent inflation. The report further states that domestic grain and wheat flour prices…