'Approved varieties of cotton seed provided to growers'

This year cotton crop has been cultivated on 5.7 million acre area and to achieve better production of cotton crop, approved varieties of cotton seed has been provided on 50 percent subsidy basis to core cotton area Multan, Bhawalpur and DG Khan divisions. This was informed Minister for Agriculture Punjab Malik Nouman Ahmad Langerial during his visit to Agriculture House here on Monday. Syed Zafaryaab Haider Director General Agriculture (Ext) briefed him about other departmental activities. It was further briefed that an amount of 23.518 Million has been spent on this subsidy and 22,347 farmers were benefited from this subsidy scheme. Besides this, spray machinery 14.74 million cost has been provided to the farmers. To save cotton crop against Pink Bollworm attack, Rs.96.2 million spent on PB Ropes that was installed on 54 districts of Punjab on 50 acre blocks. For White fly control, department is spending Rs.39.612 million to provide genetic modified varieties of cotton crop.