ISLAMABAD, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's food exports in the first quarter of the current 2022-2023 fiscal year went up by 5.70 percent as compared to the same period of last year, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday.
The exports of various food commodities were recorded at 1,077.83 million U.S. dollars during the July-September period of the ongoing fiscal year against the exports of 1,019.68 million dollars in the same period of the previous fiscal year, according to PBS data.
Meanwhile, on a year-on-year basis, the exports of food commodities from the country witnessed a nominal decrease of 1.26 percent and were recorded at 354.82 million dollars in September 2022 against the exports of 359.33 million dollars in September 2021, according to the PBS figures.
On a month-on-month basis, the exports of food commodities decreased by 3.31 percent in September 2022 when compared to the exports of 366.95 million in August 2022.
The food commodities that contributed to positive growth in trade included vegetables, pulses, fish and fish preparations, and meat, the PBS data showed. ■