Textile Sector: Ministry vows to resolve issues

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Textile Industry reiterated the government’s resolve to modernise infrastructure and resolve the sector’s issues to enhance exports. The ministry is following a multi-pronged strategy to facilitate research and technology upgrade for the protection and development of the textile sector, said an official. Responding to a question, he said that experts and scientist trained 8,000 farmers to control the loss of cotton crops and evolve measures against the pin ball virus that harmed the cotton crops in the past. He cited shortage of skilled labour and use of old techniques as barriers to enhancing trade volume. The preliminary meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) would be held from October 30, in which stakeholders would discuss challenges being faced by the textile sector, the official added.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 4^th, 2016.

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