Pakistan's World Ranking in Agricultural Products

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Pakistan's World Ranking in Agricultural Products Pakistan is not an ordinary agricultural country; rather it has significant world rankings in many of the important agricultural products (see Table below). The country produces very good quality of basmati rice which earn very high value in the world market.  The country earned more than US$ 2billion dollars from export of rice alone in 2007-08.  Similarly in cotton production, we are almost self sufficient and are able to fulfill the demand of a large (almost US$ 10 billion dollar) domestic textile industry.  In the case of mangoes country is in the process of negotiating market access with USA that will further enhance the ranking of this category. 

Pakistan Agriculture Products Production/Exports - World's Ranking
	Production	Export Quantum	Export Value
Rice	12th	4th	N-A
Cotton	4th	N-A	N-A
Milk	5th	Nill	Nill
Kinos	12th	5th	12th
Dates	4th	2nd	5th
Mangoes	4th	6th	7th
Apricots	4th	45th	72nd
Chickpeas	3rd	7th	12th
Source: SBP 1st Quarterly Report for FY08- pp 109
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/ers/94005/2008/Table39.xls
http://www.crbtrader.com/fund/articles/cotton.asp; http://internationaltradecommodities.suite101.com/article.cfm/top_rice_producing_countries