Economy

on Monday 23 May 2011
Bahawalpur is the junction of trade of wheat, cotton, rice, grown in the neighboring regions. Mangoes and dates are also grown here. the principle of ginning, rice and floor milling and the hand weaving textile Soap marketing is important. the factories which are producing cotton seed oil and cotton seed cake plays important role. This city is very important marketing place of neighboring areas.
Bahawalpur has only one railway station and only one rail bridge which is over the Satluj river and known as Adamwahan bridge. This city has rail link with all cities of Pakistan.Karachi which is 899km from bahawalpur has also a rail link and Peshawar.this area of south Punjab is mostly agricultural and export many thing to many countries of the world. There is also a large market town in this city for mangoes, dates, sugarcane, wheat and cotton. Bahawalpur has many sugar mills that allows to export sugar from outside of the country.