KARACHI: Pakistan’s fast-growing fodder industry is targeting up to $1 billion in annual exports within five years, but growers say reaching that goal depends on Islamabad securing market access to major buyers such as Saudi Arabia and China.
The country exported 930,802 tons of “feeding stuff for animals” worth $112.2 million in the fiscal year ending June, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data shared with Arab News. The United Arab Emirates accounted for the largest share at $33.2 million, leaving exporters heavily reliant on a single market.
Industry representatives say expanding cultivation without opening new destinations risks a supply glut that could depress farm prices and undermine a rapidly emerging export niche.
“We have mainly one country, the UAE, which is a purchaser,” said Sarfaraz Ali Janjua, chief executive of GRJ Agriculture and Livestock Farms and head of the Pakistan Hay Association.
He urged authorities to engage major importing countries “at the government-to-government level.”
