Pakistan is to import 50000 tons of sugar from India to meet
domestic demand and maintainable market prices. Pakistan is
expected to produce 2.8-3 million tons of sugar this year
(down from 3.2 million tons last year) to meet a demand of
3.8 million tons. Experts say that Pakistan has to import
about 800000 tons of sugar to meet this demand. Reduced rain
and productivity levels of sugar farms prompted farmers to
switch to cotton. Pakistan had banned sugar imports from
India fearing cheaper sugar from India will destroy its
sugar production capacity. However, with the resumption of
peace process and a large shortage of sugar from domestic
producers seem to have changed the Government policy. The
Indian Sugar Mills Association said that it could scale to
exporting 800000 million tons to Pakistan; in 2000, India
exported 300000 tons of sugar to Pakistan.
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