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Creation and Development of Market Institutions
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OIC MC LINE MINISTRY MARKET INSTITUTION CLASSIFICATION(S) FUNCTION(S)
Pakistan°
 Ministry of
National Food
Security and
Research
 Ministry of
Science and
Technology
 Ministry of
Health
 Ministry of
Commerce
a) Trading Corporation of
Pakistan
a) State-owned
economic
enterprise
a) Exchange &
physical
b) Pakistan Agricultural
Storage and Services
Corporation (PASSCO)
b) Licensed public
warehousing
company
b) Exchange &
physical
c) Pakistan Tobacco
Board
c) Marketing Board c) Facilitating
d) Pakistan Oilseed
Development Board
d) Marketing Board d) Facilitating
e) Fisheries Development
Board (FDB)
e) Marketing Board e) Facilitating
Palestine°
 Ministry of
Agriculture
 Ministry of
National
Economy
a) Agricultural
cooperatives
a) Cooperative a) Exchange &
facilitating
Qatar°
 Ministry of
Health (MOH)
 Ministry of
Municipal
Affairs and
Agriculture
(MOMAA)
 N/a  N/a  N/a
Saudi Arabia°  Ministry of
Agriculture
a) Saudi Grain
Organization (SAGO)
a) Licensed public
warehousing
company
a) Exchange &
physical
Senegal°
 Ministry of
Agriculture and
Livestock
 Ministry of
Mines, Industry,
and Food
Transformation
of Agricultural
Products
 Ministry of
Health
a) Cooperatives a) Cooperative a) Exchange &
facilitating
b) Agricultural
Development
Corporation (SODAGRI)
b) State-owned
economic
enterprise
b) Exchange &
physical
c) Market Regulation
Board (ARM)
c) Commodity
market
regulation
authority
c) Facilitating
d) National Oilseed
Marketing Corporation
of Senegal
(SONACOS/SUNEOR)
d) Marketing Board d) Facilitating
Sierra Leone°
 Ministry of
Health &
Sanitation
 Ministry of
Agriculture,
Forestry & Food
Security
a) Sierra Leone Produce
Marketing Company
(SLPMC)
a) Marketing Board a) Facilitating
b) Cooperatives b) Cooperative b) Exchange &
facilitating
Somalia
 Ministry of
Livestock,
Agriculture, and
Environment
a) Agricultural
cooperatives
a) Cooperatives a) Exchange &
facilitating
b) Public storage facilities b) Licensed public
warehousing
company
b) Exchange &
physical
Sudan
 Federal
Ministry of
Health
c) Agricultural
cooperatives
c) Cooperatives c) Exchange &
facilitating
d) Sudan Gezira Board d) Marketing Board d) Facilitating