ISLAMABAD: The export of live animals, instead of processed meat, has caused a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan in the last few years and has pushed up prices of meat and leather in the domestic market.
In the last financial year 2012-13, Pakistan earned $214.5m on export of processed meat, higher than $20m earned from export of live animals, sources say.
The Ministry of Food Security and Research proposed that the government should abandon the low revenue-generating option and ban animal exports. Authorities approved a summary by the ministry on the ban on commercial export of live animals from October 1.
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