The BMPIL, the first such industry in the country, has been exporting a limited quantity of mutton to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait for the last one month.

"Primarily, we're exporting 1 tonne of the processed meat on average by air... the export order is increasing day by day," Mazharul Islam, managing director of the BMPIL, told a group of reporters who visited the plant on Saturday.

He said his firm has been negotiating with some Western and Southeast Asian countries like the USA, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore to export the processed meat.

The BMPIL was set up in the country's northern district of Pabna on a land of over 9 acres with in investment of about Tk 40 crore.