Related Keywords: cotton production plunged, data reveales, domestic cotton consumption, due to untimely heavy rains, import of raw cotton, loss of billions of dollars, Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association, poor quality seeds, substandard pesticides, yarn and other textile products
Pakistan Cotton Ginners’ Association (PCGA) data shows that cotton production plunged 34.07 percent to 9.748 million bales up till March 15 of the current season from 14.785 million bales a year ago due to untimely heavy rains, substandard pesticides and poor quality seeds.
A shortfall in the cotton crop continued to worsen this season in the cotton growing areas of Punjab and Sindh.
