Pakistan fixes target of 14.4m cotton bales

Pakistan to fulfill the domestic requirements as well as exports has decided to cultivate cotton crop over 3.118 million hectares of land during the current sowing season (2017-18).

Cotton Commissioner Dr Khalid Abdullah said that cotton crop is to be cultivated over 2.429 million hectares of land in Punjab, where as in Sindh it would be sown over 0.650 million hectares of land during the current season.

Meanwhile, the cotton crop would be cultivated over 0.038 million hectares of land in Balochistan and on about 0.001 million hectares in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa respectively.

As the cotton crop production targets during the season were fixed at 14.40 million bales as against the production targets of 14.1 million bales of last year.

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