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Post organized the training schedule for a 12 member delegation from Pakistan who were part of a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded capacity development program in South Africa...

Pakistan’s biotech regulatory system is currently on hiatus as the courts work to determine whether the provinces or federal government should regulate biotech crops.

Pakistan is a small but growing market for imported consumer food products and the small modern retail sector is growing slowly.

This report outlines regulatory requirements and import procedures for food and agricultural imports into Pakistan.

Pakistani cotton is currently among lowest-priced cotton in the world.

The Government of Pakistan has increased the tariff on sugar imports from zero to 20 percent and authorized an export quota of 500,000 metric tons.

The Government of Pakistan has increased the tariff on wheat imports from zero to twenty percent.

Pakistan recently purchased 40,000 metric tons of U.S. soybean meal.

The bill amending Pakistan’s 1976 Seed Act has cleared the first step of the legislative process.

The soon-to-be-harvested sugarcane crop was largely unaffected by recent flooding.

Recent floods damaged an estimated 80,000 hectares of cotton area, a small fraction of Pakistan’s 3.1 million hectares of cotton.

The Government of Pakistan has announced a seed cotton support price of 34 cents per pound for the upcoming harvest, a significant increase over the prevailing farm price of 26 cents per pound.