Cotton: Targets to be met despite heavy rains

ISLAMABAD: Despite torrential rains across the country, an output of 12.65 million cotton bales is expected during the current crop season.

In Punjab 5,766,082 acres cotton crops have been cultivated out of 6,000,000 acres which meets 96% of the target set for 2013-2014.

Cotton Commissioner, Dr Khalid Abdullah said the second meeting of Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) was held with Secretary, Ministry of Textile Industry Division, Rukhsana Shah to assess the volume of current cotton crop in the country which showed Sindh achieving 88% of the sowing targets as 1,410,793 acres out of 1,606,185 acres has been sown.

He said that about 9million bales of cotton production was expected for the period under review of which 3.5million bales from Sindh, 0.108 million from Balochistan and 0.007 million from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 29^th, 2013.

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