Related Keywords: affecting the cotton spinning industry, check contamination of cotton, contamination continues to be the most serious problem, during storage, introduce cotton standardisation system, Karachi Cotton Association, Pakistan yarn merchant association, transportation of seed cotton, use of jute bags
Pakistan is the fifth largest producer of cotton in the world, the third largest exporter of raw cotton, the fourth largest consumer of cotton and the largest exporter of cotton yarn in the world. Pakistani cotton and cotton products contribute about 11 percent to gross domestic product and 56 percent to the foreign exchange earnings. However, the governments have failed to implement the ban on the use of jute and polypropylene bags for the transportation of seed cotton.
