Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Pakistan Reap Boycotts Tcp Tender Basmati Rice Purchase - Dec 17, 2008

Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan have strongly opposed and boycotted the TCP's tender for procuring 100,000 MT Basmati rice and 200,000 MT of Irri-6 rice.Chairman REAP, Abdul Raheem Janoo said that the association has decided to withdraw from the tender and urged the government to take REAP on board on the critical issue of rice purchase.

Exporters were earlier hesitant to supply rice to Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) and now this tender by the TCP has further perturbed them. Exporters believe that this step will result in losing the hard-earned international market share by the private sector of Pakistan during the past 20 years.

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