Rice export from the country during first five months of the current financial year was recorded at 1,316.44 million tonnes as compared to exports of the corresponding period of last year.
According to the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics country has earned US$ 557.578 million by exporting rice during the period from July to November 2016.
The rice exports in first five months of last financial year were recorded at 1,545.578 million tonnes valuing US$ 688.322 million tonnes, it added.
During first five months of the current financial year, the country earned US$ 132.110 million by exporting 151,339 metric tonnes of basmati rice as against the exports of 202,334 metric tonnes worth US$ 19.777 of the same period of last year.
Meanwhile, 1,164.651 metric tonnes of rice other than basmati rice exported and earned US$ 245.468 million as compared to 1,343,638 million of US$ 497.308 million of the same period of last year.
On month on month basis, rice exports during the month of November 2018 were recorded at 438,399 million tonnes valuing US$ 165.92 million as against the exports of 5,339 metric tonnes worth US$ 203.844 million of the same month of last year.
About 30,400 metric tonnes of basmati rice worth US$ 24.704 million exported in months of November 2016 as against 38,618 metric tonnes of US$ 32.986 million of the same month of last year.
In a month of November 2016 exports of rice other than basmati was recorded at 407,999 metric tonnes valuing US$ 141.216 million as compared to exports of 501,129 metric tonnes worth US$ 170.858 million of the same month of last year.
