{"id":81740,"date":"2019-01-18T15:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=81740"},"modified":"2019-01-18T15:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:42:01","slug":"pm-welcomes-foreign-investment-in-pakistans-agri-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=81740","title":{"rendered":"PM welcomes foreign investment in Pakistan&#8217;s agri sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad, Jan. 18 (TNS): A US-based multinational company Cargill has renewed its long standing commitment to Pakistan by announcing plans to invest more than 200 million dollars in the next three-to-five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made after Cargill&#8217;s global executive team, led by Marcel Smits, head of Global Strategy and Chairman, Cargill Asia Pacific region, and Gert-Jan van den Akker, president, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain, met with the Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visiting delegation informed the Prime Minister that Cargill intended to invest in Pakistan as back as 2012 but was discouraged by mismanagement, corruption and non-availability of level playing field during the previous governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, investor&#8217;s confidence has restored after the incumbent government and the policies being pursued by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister welcomed investment plans of Cargill in the area of agriculture development, import substitution and enhancement of agricultural products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted the efforts of the government towards ensuring transparency, providing the business community with level playing field and improving ease of doing business in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister assured the delegation full support from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a global food and agriculture producer with a strong focus on Asia, Cargill aims to partner on Pakistan&#8217;s growth by bringing its global expertise and investment into the country. The company&#8217;s strategy includes expansion across its agricultural trading and supply chain, edible oils, dairy, meat and animal feed businesses while ensuring safety and food traceability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cargill will bring world class innovations to support the flourishing dairy industry in Pakistan as well as the rising demand for edible oils and a growing market for animal feed.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 18 (TNS): A US-based multinational company Cargill has renewed its long standing commitment to Pakistan by announcing plans to invest more than 200 million dollars in the next three-to-five years. The announcement was made after Cargill&#8217;s global executive team, led by Marcel Smits, head of Global Strategy and Chairman, Cargill Asia Pacific region, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81742,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81740\/revisions\/81742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}