ISLAMABAD
\nFood group exports reached US$ 3.394 billion during the first eight months of the current financial year (2025-26), the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported. Food group exports showed a decline of 34.38 percent from US$ 5.173 billion during the same month of last year (Jul-Feb 2024-25).
\nThe food commodities that contributed to positive growth in trade included fish and fish preparations, the exports of which grew by 9.70 percent, from US$ 263.589 million to US$ 289.162 million. The other food commodities that contributed to positive growth included fruits, the exports of which increased by 6.25 percent, from US$ 237.130 million to US$ 251.947 million whereas the exports of meat and meat preparations rose by 9.30 percent, from US$ 338.645 million to US$ 370.153 million.
\nThe food commodities that contributed to negative growth in trade included rice, the exports of which decreased by 39.91 percent, from US$ 2483.362 million to US$ 1492.228 million. The exports of vegetables dipped by 46.45 percent, from US$ 227.224 million to US$ 121.681 million; tobacco by 22.03 percent from US$ 125.026 million to US$ 97.484 million, spices by 1.61 percent from US$ 62.235 million to US$ 61.333 million, oil seeds, nuts, and kernals by 53.92 percent, from US$ 339.214 million to US$ 156.311 million. The export of sugar dipped by 100 percent from US$ 406.999 million to zero export during the months under review while the exports of all other food items decreased by 19.65 percent, from US$ 690.213 million to US$ 554.584 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Food group exports reached US$ 3.394 billion during the first eight months of the current financial year (2025-26), the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported. Food group exports showed a decline of 34.38 percent from US$ 5.173 billion during the same month of last year (Jul-Feb 2024-25). The food commodities that contributed to positive …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95216,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203\/revisions\/95216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}