Maaza invited to set up food processing plant

Maaza International Group of Companies requested to set up canning and food processing industry.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has asked Maaza International Group of Companies to set up a canning and food processing industry in Pakistan and assured the group of the government’s full cooperation.

Gilani, while talking to a delegation of the of the United Arab Emirates’ group at his chamber in the Parliament House on Friday, said that Pakistan’s thriving agriculture sector offers attractive investment opportunities. He pointed out that the agro and dairy industry is making two to three hundred per cent profits.

He said that Pakistan produces high-quality mango, apple, citrus, date, guava, apricot and other fruits in abundance.

Maaza Chairman Muhammad Abdullah Omran Al Omran told the prime minister that his group is interested in importing mango pulp from Pakistan. He said that the company is also studying the possibility of establishing a dairy farm in Sindh. Gilani said that the government has already liberalised the economy and the private sector has assumed the role of a frontline player in the economic field.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2010.