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Pakistan Offers Land For Rice To Saudi Arabia

By news desk on October 22,2008

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Pakistan's minister of finance, investment and privatization, Syed Naveed Qamar, announced at a Saudi-Pak Investment Conference that Pakistan was ready to provide land to Saudi Arabia in order to cultivate rice.

Pakistan is one of the largest rice producing countries; having annual production of more than 5 million MT. Rice occupies 2.5 million hectares that is 10.9 % of the total cultivated area with production of 5.1 million MT of milled rice.


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