Tag: Sugar

ECC meeting: Wheat support price and sugar export allowance increased

Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet met on Thursday following which the support price of wheat for the next crop was increased to...

PSMA to give exchequer some sugar

The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) has envisaged a production of about 5 million metric tons(MT) sugar during forthcoming crushing season against domestic requirement...

Food imports shrink 6.35 % in first quarter

Food imports decreased by 6.35 percent during the first quarter of the current fiscal year as compared to the corresponding period of last year. The...

Sugar price goes up despite 1.2m ton stock

The price of sugar in the province of Sindh is on the rise despite 1.2 million tons of available sugar stocks in the country. The...

Flour and sugar prices up in Sindh

Flour prices all across Sindh has gradually increased by more than Rs 3 per kg since June, while sugar price has also witnessed increase...

Tips to manage your sugar cravings

Foods with artificial sweeteners have the potential to help people lose weight as long as the substitution doesn’t lead to the compensation trap. The American...

Hypertensive and sugar patients at risk to develop Alzheimer

Optimum compliance to drug therapy is extremely essential for people suffering from hypertension or with higher blood sugar levels as otherwise their risk to...

SMA wants to export 500,000 tons of sugar to Iran

Sugar Mils’ Association (SMA) has requested the government to allow export of 5 lakh tons of sugar before the onset of next sugar-crushing season....

It’s going down!

The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) of the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000 for the week ended on August 30, registered a decrease...

Sugar production likely to rise in Pakistan by 5 percent

Sugar production will rise in India, Pakistan, Russia and European Union EU member states and its global production likely to rise by about 5%...

There’s enough sugar on the table

Annual meeting of the Standing Committee on Sugarcane headed by Abdul Basit Khan, Acting Secretary, Ministry of National Food Security and Research was held...

Andraka wins top prize at int’l science fair

Based on diabetic test paper, Jack Andraka created a simple dip-stick sensor to test blood or urine to determine whether or not a patient...

Pour some sugar on me

Pakistan on Tuesday allowed the export of 200,000 tonnes of white sugar and directed the state trading corporation to buy 200,000 tonnes from local...

Give them sugar and get the urea

Chairman Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) Javed Kayani has urged the Federal Government to consider PSMA’s proposal of barter trade for procurement of urea...

Colony Sugar, Guard Group in Challenge Polo final

Colony Sugar on Friday made its third final on trot when it beat Pessi in the last league match of the Zong Challenge Polo...

Sugar price jumps by Rs7/kg

Soon after the government allowed export of sugar, price of the highly consumed item in domestic market jumped by Rs7 per kilogram on Saturday. Sugar,...

Colony Sugar win run continues in National Polo

Colony Sugar’s win run is continuing in National Polo Championship being held here at the Lahore Polo Club on Saturday. It was a day...