Cotton output misses targets by wide margin |
LAHORE: The country’s cotton sector has expressed serious concern over the sharp shortfall in cotton production against the targets set by the Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) for the 2025-26 season.
The FCA had fixed cotton cultivation targets for Punjab at 3.46 million acres with a production goal of 5.553m bales (170 kg each), for Sindh it was 1.556m acres with a production target of 4.040m bales. However, the data released by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) up to Dec 15 shows that actual production stood at only 2.453m bales in Punjab and 2.848m bales in Sindh,........