Onions from Pakistan to enter Chinese market

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Onions from Pakistan to enter Chinese market

BEIJING - China and Pakistan have inked an agreement that would open the Chinese market for Pakistani onion, marking the first deal since the two

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BEIJING - China and Pakistan have inked an agreement that would open the Chinese market for Pakistani onion, marking the first deal since the two neighbors embarked on the second development phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that focuses on cooperation in industrial and agricultural sectors.




The agreement will facilitate the access of onion products from Pakistan in the Chinese market, and the cooperation will further help Pakistan to improve the domestic production capacity of onions, according to a statement sent to the Global Times by the Pakistani Embassy in Beijing. Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong signed a protocol for inspection requirements on imported onions from Pakistan with the Ministry of National Food Security and Research in Pakistan. The construction of the CPEC has entered a new stage of high-quality development, focusing on industrial and agricultural cooperation with strong bilateral complementarity in agricultural trade, cold-chain storage and other fields, Nong said. Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhar Imam said that China was home to a very broad and mature consumer market, and Pakistan hopes to increase agricultural cooperation with China and promote exports of more high-quality products such as mangoes, cherries and dairy products to China.

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The agreement is the first on agricultural exports signed between the two countries in the second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and it marks the beginning of market access for Pakistani onions in China. Analysts stressed that the signing of the agreement will further deepen bilateral trade in agriculture and promote the construction of the second phase of the CPEC.

With onions now able to be exported to China, bilateral agricultural cooperation has been further promoted, as well as the development of the CPEC in its second phase, Zhou Rong, a senior researcher at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, told the Global Times.

Bilateral trade has deepened since the second phase of the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (CPTA) came into effect in 2020, and more products have been able to enter the Chinese market, said the Pakistani Embassy’s statement.

Nong stressed that from January to September in 2021, agricultural trade reached $860 million, with Pakistan’s exports to China reaching $630 million, a twofold increase year-on-year.

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Exports of mangoes alone reached 37.4 tons, a jump of more than 10 times compared with the same period in 2020.

Tariffs on some 75 percent of goods from both sides have been gradually reduced to zero since 2020, which has provided access to China for more high-quality agricultural products from Pakistan, according to Nong.

 

[FuturePAF]

Pakistan needs a department in the CPEC office that studies what economic opportunities there are in the Chinese market, and offers guidance as well as assistance to maximize exports to China, considering the free trade opportunities given to Pakistan.

 

[Ali_Baba]

and Pakistan needs to learn to diversify away from the export of foods, clothes to those with more intelletual property and manufacturing built into them.

I am tired about hearing about how excited people get about the export of f------ "mangoes" !!! Maybe Pakistan learn to make something more useful to export ...

 

[MH.Yang]

In 2018, the turnover of China's vegetable market was 397.2 billion CNY (US $62.1 billion), and in 2019, the turnover of China's fruit market was 2.7 trillion CNY (US $421.9 billion).

 

[RealNapster]

Pakistan needs a department in the CPEC office that studies what economic opportunities there are in the Chinese market, and offers guidance as well as assistance to maximize exports to China, considering the free trade opportunities given to Pakistan.

We don't need a CPEC to be able to export onions.... We should accept our failures when it come to exports. CPEC or no CPEC, we miss every possible chance of exporting something.

 

[SIPRA]

We don't need a CPEC to be able to export onions.... We should accept our failures when it come to exports. CPEC or no CPEC, we miss every possible chance of exporting something.

No harm in accepting the bitter fact that we have failed as a society as well as a state. We ourselves have become onions, with a lot of layers, and no gist.

 

[Azadkashmir]

chinese eat alot of rabbits, maybe rabbit farming is good and you can use the fur. with lack of electricity we cant manufacturer much. we stick with agriculture.

 

[fitpOsitive]

We don't need a CPEC to be able to export onions.... We should accept our failures when it come to exports. CPEC or no CPEC, we miss every possible chance of exporting something.

Exactly. Accept that we failed. Only then we can see and improve.

 

[Itachi]

chinese eat alot of rabbits, maybe rabbit farming is good and you can use the fur. with lack of electricity we cant manufacturer much. we stick with agriculture.

Rabbit is halal also. And good source of cheap protean since rabbits can eat left over vegetables.


Lots of opportunities for those with capital and creative minds.

No harm in accepting the bitter fact that we have failed as a society as well as a state. We ourselves have become onions, with a lot of layers, and no gist.

Someone watched Shrek...

Ogres are like Onions....they have layers.

 

[RealNapster]

Rabbit is halal also. And good source of cheap protean since rabbits can eat left over vegetables.

Even a heart patient can eat rabbit meat. It is allowed to them. So it's good. When I was a kid we had many in our house. But you need unpaved surface for them hence majority houses can't have them. But farming rabbits is a great idea. They are also not cheap and are expensive , like around 1500-2000 per rabbit.

 

[Itachi]

Even a heart patient can eat rabbit meat. It is allowed to them. So it's good. When I was a kid we had many in our house. But you need unpaved surface for them hence majority houses can't have them. But farming rabbits is a great idea. They are also not cheap and are expensive , like around 1500-2000 per rabbit.

Yea...one thing I don't like about Pakistan is the unplanned urban sprawl.....cut every tree in sight and build concrete roads and buildings.....then clap like you have jumped from the 19th to the 21st century.

Need to destroy unnecessary buildings/roads and make way for natural grounds.

Like this:

Going back to topic....yea, I completely agree. Rabbit farming is good and can help replace unhealthy broiler chickens.

They are also not cheap and are expensive , like around 1500-2000 per rabbit.

Economies of scale can fix that.

Chickens were a delicacy once too.

 

[Azadkashmir]

oat, hemp milk is good business and cheese business. plz dont say we dont have infrastructure.

 

[MH.Yang]

oat, hemp milk is good business and cheese business. plz dont say we dont have infrastructure.

Milk is a good idea, China imported $11.8 billion in dairy products in 2018.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

am tired about hearing about how excited people get about the export of f------ "mangoes" !!!

Haha you took the words out of my mouth. The other thing I am tired is seeing some nobody from the west being touted in Pakistan 'coz he/she said something good about the country'.

On exports al you hear is mangoes, cotton, kinoo - basically the sweat of the poor rural people that PDF ignore who make 85% of Pakistan. What exactly does Karachi, Lahore etc produce that is exported?

As things stand exports hail from the countryside with nominal value addition in urban areas and most remittances again come from labour from rural areas working abroad.

 

[Itachi]

oat, hemp milk is good business and cheese business. plz dont say we dont have infrastructure.

Hemp Milk!?

First time hearing that.


Time to start digging......I mean researching....I mean going into the internet blackhole....I mean making a sentence with periods so that you can explain to me what "hemp milk" is.