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Related Keywords: all the stakeholders, cotton output target, develop coordinated strategies, downward trend, during this season, enhance capacity about best crop management practices, for next season set, organize awareness-building seminars for farmers, owing to pest attacks, Pakistan cotton production, rainfall, Textile Industry

Pakistan cotton production which is on the downward trend from 33.62 percent to 9.687 million bales during this season to February 15 owing to pest attacks and rainfall damaging the crop. The government aimed at 15.49 million cotton bales in the beginning of the current season. But for the next season, Pakistan government has set the cotton production target at 14.101 million bales, on Tuesday.

The federal committee on cotton (FCC) fixed the cotton production target from 3.009 million hectares across the country for the fiscal year of 2016/17.

Related Keywords: cotton industry, cotton output target, Zimbabwean farmers

The Zimbabwean government targeting to increase cotton output from 140,000 tonnes last year to 180,000 tonnes this cropping season expecting increase in local demand, Zimbabwean news agency New Ziana reported.

Strategies for reviving the textile industry and value addition and financing from the banking sector are expected to boost local demand for cotton and production.

However, Zimbabwe may fail to meet its target of producing 180,000 tonnes of cotton this year due to shortage of agricultural inputs and late onset of rains, an official said Friday.