Related Keywords: against the set target of fourteen point one million bales, cotton bales, led to reduction in overall cotton sowing, less return from competing crops, lower prices in last year, missing cotton production target by around twenty five percent, Pakistan cotton production, recorded ten point five million bales, this season
Pakistan cotton production has been recorded at 10.5 million bales against the set target of 14.1 million bales for 2016-17, missing the cotton production target by around 25 percent.
Official sources revealed on Saturday that 10.5 million bales of cotton have been recorded so far and the number may reach 10.6 million bales by end-March (closing time); however, the number surpassed the cotton production of 9.7 million bales recorded during the same period of the last year (2015-16).
