Inefficient policies: Cotton growers blame bureaucracy
PCGA allege that the bureaucracy is misguiding the government by giving fabricated and concocted figures
The PCGA demanded that a high level commission be constituted to investigate the real causes of decline. PHOTO: FILE
Earlier, Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) boycotted a meeting of the Cotton Crop Management Group (CCMG) held at Central Cotton Research Institute (CCRI) and alleged that the bureaucracy was misguiding the government by giving fabricated and concocted figures of cotton sowing in Punjab.
Later, on Friday, PCGA Chairman Shehzad Ali Khan said that federal and provincial government had failed to convince farmers to bring maximum area under cotton crop. Explaining the cause, he said cotton zones were tuned into sugarcane area, substandard seeds were available in the market and research institutes failed to evolve new varieties.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 18th, 2016.
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