PAD sets cotton production target at 10.5 million bales

Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) has set the cotton production target of 10.5 million bales for the current season in the province. According to a spokesman of the PAD, growers should avoid loss caused to cotton crop during the picking process to bringing it to ginning factories. He said that the country bears loss of billions of rupees during the phases of picking from the fields to bringing the crop to ginning factories.
PAD spokesman advised the growers to start picking up their crop only after its complete maturity so as to avoid tainted cotton because of immaturity or facing hardships during the ginning process because of moisture. Similarly, he said that picking process should immediately be stopped during rain and restart only after cotton dries completely. The spokesman also advised the growers to clean cotton from all foreign elements before storing in godowns while transport cotton to ginning factories in specially designed trolley by the Agriculture department. He also advised for observing care to save cotton from any adulteration during this transportation.