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Opportunity Rationale:
Food is the basic necessity of life. Different countries have different food tradition all over the world according to their culture and environment. Such as sea-food is the main dish of Sri Lanka & Bangladesh where as rice is also use in these countries including china as well. In European countries potato and wheat are mainly use and as an alternative too. As far as consumption of sub-continent is concerned wheat is the main crop used as a source of food.
Agriculture sector contribute 24% of total GDP in Pakistan. Wheat is the traditional food item of Pakistan and is the third largest industry of Pakistan. Wheat occupies 2/3 of the total area under crop, (8.5 million hectors). Punjab is providing 72% of total production of wheat, while 17% is provided by Sindh, 4% by Balochistan & 7% by Khyber Pakhtonkhaw.
|Food Consumption | |
|Wheat & wheat floor |55% |
|Meat (total animal product ) |25% |
|Total vegetables |20% |
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www.dawn.com/2011/03/01/food-consumption-in-pakistan.html