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Iran to procure 45,000
tonnes Pak rice after Ramazan
ISLAMABAD-Iran has agreed to procure 45,000 tonnes of rice
from Pakistan.
This was disclosed by the visiting Iranian Minister for
Agriculture and Plant Protection in a meeting which was
chaired by Abdul Razak Dawood, Federal Minister for Commerce,
Industries and Production, here today.
Understanding to buy Pakistani rice was reached during the
meeting of Iranian Foreign
Minister with President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf
when the minister visited Pakistan in November, last. Iranian
Minister said that after Ramazan the process of implementation
of procurement will start.
The delegation of Grain Trading Corporation (GTC) of Iran will
visit Pakistan after Ramazan to procure the rice consignment.
Mr. Razak Dawood while giving an over view of the trade with
Iran, apprised the delegation that since coming in of this
Government the quantum of imports from Iran have tangibly
increased but the exports to Iran have decreased.
He said, during his visit to Iran in July this year, he
discussed with his Iranian
Counterpart the matters pertaining to export of wheat, rice
and citrus fruit.
Mr. Razak said our wheat is of international standard and
diseased free but he desired that Iranian technical delegation
must satisfy themselves before finalizing the deal of
procurement of 0.2 million tonnes of wheat and Pakistani
experts will facilitate them in this respect.
The meeting was also attended by the Federal Minister
Agriculture Mr. Khair Muhammad Junejo, Chairman, NARC and
other higher officials of Commerce and Agriculture Ministries.
January 2, 2002 |
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