15 million bales cotton target: KCA hails PM's directives about cotton production

The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) has welcomed the directives issued by the Prime Minister of Pakistan to the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to take measures to achieve the production target of 15.00 million bales of cotton and set-up a working group to revamp existing, Seed Registration institutes to bring improvement in their outputs.
The KCA is of the view that Pakistan has a great potential to increase cotton production by 'taking concrete and' effective measures in right direction by the Government
The KCA is also of the view that there is a dire need to increase cotton production up to 200 million bales o meet the rising requirement of local textile industry and leave adequate surplus for export to earn much needed foreign exchange for the country as due to devastating cotton crop failure in cotton season 2015-16 'and shortfall in cotton crop 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons the local textile mills were compelled to impact raw cotton from abroad to meet their requirements of basic raw material.-PR