Achhe din in Pakistan as growing middle class opting for air travel over rail and road Achhe din in Pakistan as growing middle class opting for air travel over rail and road
Pakistan s Domestic And International Airlines Have Ransported A Record 20 Million Passengers Last Year Which Is Equivalent To About 10 Per Cent Of The Total Population.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Shambhudeep Hore | Updated on: 21 Nov 2017, 02:01:59 PM
New Delhi:
The state of Pakistan has registered an increase in per capita income which has resulted in citizens opting for more domestic air travel over road or rail, as per media reports.
Why is Pakistan not utilizing one of its most significant produce, available in abundant quantity, to increase its exports? Pakistan is the fourth largest milk producer globally, and the dairy.
Sindh’s areas of Thatta, Badin, Sujawal and Umerkot have witnessed considerable cultivation of the crop. Photo courtesy www.fao.org/File
HYDERABAD: A progressive farmer, Nadeem Shah, has given up cultivating sunflower crop on his land in Sujawal, one of Sindh’s coastal districts that suit its cultivation climatically. He looks disappointed with this otherwise short-duration crop for a variety of reasons.
His disappointment seems understandable considering the fact that a farmer tends to invest in a crop to earn income and invest the same in next crop. And income-wise sunflower one of the major sources of edible oil production is no longer beneficial for him. It is all about his business preferences.
Illustration by Samiah Bilal
Most conversations about exports from Pakistan focus on one industry alone: textiles. This is perhaps only natural. After all, textiles make up around 60 percent of the country’s overall exports.
The (relative) good news is that the sector is currently running at its optimum level. But, unfortunately, the reason behind this upsurge is the havoc wreaked by the coronavirus. Global suppliers have diverted orders to Pakistan, in large part because of the pandemic’s devastating impact on India and Bangladesh.
The further bad news is that the upsurge may be temporary. And once things normalise, Pakistan’s economy, which continues to rely heavily on the textile sector, may feel the impact.
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