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Pakistan, Bangladesh discuss ways to enhance bilateral trade with focus on sugar, rice, and agricultural cooperation

By ChiniMandi In a renewed push to deepen economic ties, Pakistan and Bangladesh have placed special focus on enhancing trade in key sectors, including sugar, during high level talks held in Dhaka on Thursday. Pakistan’s Minister of Commerce, Jam Kamal Khan, and Bangladesh’s Adviser for Commerce, Sk Bashir Uddin, explored ways to promote mutual investments […]

Water scarcity forces Iraq to limit rice farming

Shafaq News – Baghdad On Saturday, Iraq’s Ministry of Agriculture announced that the area allocated for rice cultivation has dropped to 200 dunams after the country entered a stage of water scarcity. Agriculture Ministry adviser Mahdi al-Qaisi told Shafaq News that the water reserves are at critically low levels, as confirmed by the Ministry of […]

Bangladesh currently has record high rice reserve: Official

BSS, Dhaka The top official of the country’s food office on Saturday said Bangladesh currently has record high reserve of food grains as far as rice and paddy were concerned. “Currently 22.50 lakh tonnes of rice are stored in various food warehouses of the country,” Director General of the Directorate General of Food M Abul […]

Indonesia ensures rice price stability through market ops

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Indonesia’s Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman has assured that the government will continue rice market operations to protect the public from soaring staple prices. He confirmed on Sunday that the government is acting on President Prabowo Subianto’s directive to curb the surge in rice prices. Under the Food Price Stability (SPHP) scheme, […]

Pakistan’s raw food exports fall 10.25pc in July on weaker rice shipments

PBS data shows rice exports down 18.29pc; basmati leads decline with 42.72pc drop. By Monitoring Desk Pakistan’s raw food exports declined by 10.25 per cent in July 2025, ending a 19-month streak of continuous growth, according to official data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). The fall was driven largely by rice shipments, which […]