Secretary Agriculture Punjab Waif Khurshid has said that Agriculture Officers (Ext) female staff is imparting training to women involved in picking of cotton bolls as per International standards as contamination free picking always ensure profitability to the farmers.
He advised farmers to start picking of cotton bolls after 9 am and end at 4 pm. If there are chances of rainfall then picking should be postponed; labour involved in picking should wear cotton clothes for this purpose and avoid mix of hair and other contamination items in cotton bolls. Farmers should start picking of cotton when 50% bolls had become fully matured; picking should be started from lower part of the plant and gradually move upward because lower bolls may get damaged from drop of branches and be contaminated if picking was started from upper parts of the plant. The department has further advised the growers that during picking process, only cotton boll should be extracted from the cotton plant. Interval between one picking to another should be of 15 to 20 days. Cotton plants affected by attack of pink bollworm should be eliminated. Wages paid to labour should be according to cleanliness of cotton picking so that they may be vigilant during picking process.
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