ISLAMABAD (APP) - Punjab province has achieved 16 per cent of cotton sowing target fixed for the sowing season 2013 to fulfill the domestic requirements of the commodity as well as to export it. The sowing is 16 percent higher than that during the same period of last year, said Cotton Development ...

rahimyar khan - Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has issue final figures for domestic cotton production in 2012-13. According to report, total domestic cotton production is 12,915,585 bales that are 1,898,194 bales (12.81pc) less than previous year. That report says that during the year ...

LAHORE : The recent rain has badly damaged 0.2 million maund wheat, 0.5 million maund chaff and cotton sown on an area of 0.2 million acres, according to a survey by the Pakistan Agri Forum.PAF Chairman Dr Muhammad Ibrahim Mughal expressed these views while talking to APP Sunday.  Mughal said ...

ISLAMABAD - A high-level delegation of American cotton scientists visited Pakistan last week to review progress and plan new strategies with Pakistani counterparts to fight the Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCV), a devastating disease that affects cotton yields in Pakistan and caused loss of an ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN – Because of prolonged loadshedding of electricity and gas, the textile industries have failed to fulfill the cotton yarn exports orders, and as a result, China, Bangladesh and other countries have moved to India to purchase cotton yarn, said a former executive member of the ...

LAHORE - The Agriculture Department has advised cotton growers to select fertile loam for maximum produc-tion of the crop.  Farmers should only use certified cotton varieties for sowing. He said BT variety Ali Akbar-703 could be sown from March till April 15, Nelum-121 from March to April 30, ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - The figures of cotton production in Pakistan and India have been issued by Cotton Ginners Associations of both the countries, which showed that total domestic cotton production remained lower than previous year in both the countries.According to the statistics issued by Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD  - Despite the damages caused by the floods in the cotton growing areas, the production of the crop during the current season has been estimated at 13.3 million bales. “The Cotton Assessment Committee has estimated cotton production at 13.3 million bales against the set target ...

RAHIMYAR KHAN - Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has issued fortnightly figures of domestic cotton production and accordingly all country-wide ginning factories have so far received seed-cotton (phutti) equivalent to 9,582,560 cotton bales up to 30th November, 2012, that’s 67,542 ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - Reports of lower production of cotton crop in Pakistan and India as compared to earlier estimates, rising price of dollar and Chinese intention of buying cotton yarn from Pakistan have positively impacted local cotton prices that are now at the rising ebb.Sources have informed that ...

LAHORE - Punjab Agriculture Department has advised cotton growers to start picking cotton late in the morning after ensuring that dew on cotton leaves has properly dried out.A spokesman of the department said on Thursday that farmers should pick cotton from fully open pods.“There should be a ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has issued fortnightly figures of domestic cotton production.According to the PCGA, country-wide ginning factories have so far received cotton seed (phutti) equivalent to 5,283,197 cotton bales up to October 15, 567,445 bales (12.03%) more ...

ISLAMABAD – The reconstituting of Pakistan Central Cotton Committee(PCCC) will lead the country to a bias and unauthentic data as private sector could be manipulated cotton date according to its own wish, said an official.The official said the recently re-constituted Pakistan Central Cotton ...

MULTAN - The arrival of cotton at country’s ginning factories has registered 23.17 per cent increase, disclosed a fortnightly break up issued by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA). The break up shows that around 3.44 million cotton bales were sourced to the country’s ginners ...

LAHORE – Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch on Saturday called on the government to pay a competitive support price to cotton cultivators.A delegation of cotton cultivators from Pakpattan, led by Chaudhry Ghulam Haider, met with Baloch at Mansoora on Saturday and discussed with ...

ISLAMABAD : The country's cotton production can be increased by 62.5 per cent by developing seed industry, controlling weeds and pests and adopting improved crop management techniques, sources say.The Punjab Cotton Control Ordinance 1966, amended up to 2002, further needs to be amended to provide ...

LAHORE (APP) The cotton sowing target is likely to be missed as, so far, cotton has been sown on area of over 1.2 million acres against the target of 6.2 million acres in the province. Pakistan Agri Forum Chairman Muhammad Ibrahim Mughal said on Thursday the government should review agriculture ...

LAHORE In Punjab, 6.2 million acres of land will be brought under cotton cultivation this year. A Punjab Agriculture Department spokesman said on Saturday that poison should be applied to seed before sowing to have a better yield, adding that it would keep the crop safe from juice sucking insects ...

LAHOREThe Agriculture Department has advised cotton growers to select fertile loam for maximum produc-tion of the crop.  Farmers should only use certified cotton varieties for sowing. He said BT variety Ali Akbar-703 could be sown from March till April 15, Nelum-121 from March to April 30, ...

LAHORE - India has banned cotton exports in a move to conserve supplies for local mills. Consequently the demand at international level for cotton and cotton yarn will enhance, benefiting Pakistan which has presently around 14.3 million bales surplus.All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) ...

ISLAMABAD  – It is estimated that Pakistan loses over 2.3 million cotton bales every year due to Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCV), which is considered to be the one of the top reasons of Pakistan’s low cotton yield, especially in Punjab.An official on the condition of anonymity told ...

MULTAN  – About 14,094,233 cotton bales have been reached in 609 operational ginning factories till February 15 which is 23 per cent higher than the last year.According to Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) sources, 13,989,519 cotton bales have been prepared while the remaining ...

ISLAMABAD  – About 13,615,327 cotton bales have arrived in the local markets by the start of current month, showing an increased of 22.61 percent as compared to the last year.The cotton arrival during the same month of last year was recorded at 11,104,511 bales, an official in the ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - Cotton worth of Rs30 million burnt to ashes in a fire that played havoc in Grain Market Chishtian here the other day. According to detail, huge quantity of cotton in grain market Chishtian caught fire all of a sudden which engulfed the entire area. The Tehsil Municipal Administration ...

ISLAMABAD  - Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) here on Thursday was informed that the crop output was expected to cross 12.598 million bales at an average weight of 170 kg per bale during the crop season 2011-12.Cotton production target was set at 14.01 million bales for the FY 2011-12 ...

Third meeting of Cotton Crop Assessment Committee is scheduled to be held on January 26 to forecast the crop volume in the country. The meeting would be attended by stakeholders including farmers from all provinces, representatives of provincial governments, representatives of ministry of Textile ...

MULTAN - The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has hurled a threat that ginning factories will stop purchasing cotton from January 10 if the government does not start buying cotton through Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP).Talking to the journalists here, PCGA Chairman Aman Ullah ...

MULTAN  - Over 12 million bales of phutti (seed cotton) has reached ginneries till Jan 1 across the country, showing an increase of 17.5 per cent as compared to the corresponding period of last year.According to a consolidated statement issued by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association, out of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) in its second meeting held here informed that a total of 12.598 million cotton bales are expected in the current season.The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Minister for Textile Industry. The meeting was ...

Efforts to create self-cleaning cotton fabrics are bearing fruit in China. Engineers have created a chemical coating that causes cotton materials to clean themselves of stains and remove odours when exposed to sunlight. The researchers say the treatment is cheap, non-toxic and ecologically ...