DPM Dar orders strategic sugar reserves before surplus exports
Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar told a cabinet committee that sugar export in Pakistan must rest on strategic reserves so surplus shipments do not push up domestic retail prices.
DPM Ishaq Dar ordered strategic sugar reserves so surplus exports do not raise retail prices.
He chaired a Cabinet Committee on the Export of Surplus Sugar meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Officials are finalising administrative, technical and procedural frameworks for surplus sugar exports.
Stock levels and domestic consumption needs were reviewed to protect price stability.
Dar said earning foreign exchange from surplus farm goods matters, but consumers remain the top priority.