Inefficient policies: Cotton growers blame bureaucracy

PCGA allege that the bureaucracy is misguiding the government by giving fabricated and concocted figures

MULTAN: The bureaucracy is to be blamed for the government’s inefficient policies since it is providing inaccurate numbers, said representatives of the cotton growers and ginners association.

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 18^th, 2016.

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