Damaged crops: Compensation for cotton growers discussed
NA's Standing Committee on Textile Industry said govt should compensate cotton growers for losses.
KARACHI:
The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Textile Industry Chairman Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari said on Saturday that the government should compensate cotton growers for their losses caused by recent rains.
Ansari said after a committee briefing on the crop situation that it was a matter of serious concern for the country as other crops, including chillies and sugarcane, had also been damaged by the floods.
He said that the committee would ask the National Assembly speaker to discuss the matter in parliament.
Ansari said that at least two million bales of cotton had been damaged by torrential rains in Sindh, adding that Pakistan had suffered a loss of 2.6 million cotton bales in last year’s floods. He said that the country was expecting a bumper cotton crop of 15 million bales this year, but the untimely rains devastated the cotton-producing areas like Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad and Badin.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 11th, 2011.
The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Textile Industry Chairman Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari said on Saturday that the government should compensate cotton growers for their losses caused by recent rains.
Ansari said after a committee briefing on the crop situation that it was a matter of serious concern for the country as other crops, including chillies and sugarcane, had also been damaged by the floods.
He said that the committee would ask the National Assembly speaker to discuss the matter in parliament.
Ansari said that at least two million bales of cotton had been damaged by torrential rains in Sindh, adding that Pakistan had suffered a loss of 2.6 million cotton bales in last year’s floods. He said that the country was expecting a bumper cotton crop of 15 million bales this year, but the untimely rains devastated the cotton-producing areas like Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad and Badin.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 11th, 2011.