The Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) is imparting training to female farm workers for ensuring cotton picking in line with the international standards.
A spokesman of the department said on Thursday that clean cotton picking is acceptable in market and contamination-free picking always ensures profitability to the farmers. He advised farmers to start picking of cotton bolls after 9 am and end by 4 pm. "If there are chances of rainfall then farmers are advised to postpone picking of cotton and labour involved in picking should use cotton bags for collection and avoid mixing hair and other type of contamination in cotton bolls so that ideal price can be obtained," he added.