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UAE to invest in Pakistan’s agriculture sector

25/11/2011

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will undertake a number of joint ventures in Pakistan’s agricultural sector for which it has identified land for cultivation in Punjab and Sindh, a UAE diplomat said recently.

Suhail Bin Matar Al-Ketbi, the UAE’s consul general in Karachi, said that crops to be cultivated on the acquired land will both be exported and sold in the local markets. He said Pakistan has huge untapped cultivatable land which has attracted the UAE to initiate new projects in the sector.

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