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PCGA for banning Indian yarn, lint

From Our Correspondent

MULTAN: The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association has urged the government to ban import of cotton, yarn and lint from India till the current cotton crop season is not finished in Pakistan.

Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, PCGA chairman Shahzad Ali Khan said that one million bales were lying unsold in the ginneries despite 33.62 per cent less production. He said that the textile mills were not taking interest in purchasing the stock. He said that the PCGA had issued the figures of cotton arrival up to February 15, 2016. According to the fortnightly report, seed cotton (Phutti) equivalent to over 9,687,118 bales had reached ginneries across the country as of February 15, showing a decrease of 33.62 per cent as compared to the corresponding period last year when the ginneries received 14,435,202 bales.

Ginneries in Punjab recorded arrival of 5,927,372 bales with decrease of 44.29 per cent while Sindh ginneries recorded arrival of 3,759,746 bales while the last year, Sindh received 3,954,576 bales.

The PCGA chairman said that Multan received 129,309 bales (73.76 per cent less), Lodhran 97,437 bales (73.18 per cent less), Khanewal 402,920 bales (58.16 per cent less), Muzaffargarh 263,439 bales (46.39 per cent less), Dera Ghazi Khan 291,145 bales (40.6 per cent less), Rajanpur 405,037 bales (28.52 per cent less), Layyah 251,948 bales (38.89 per cent less), Vehari 308,908 bales (60.81 per cent less), Sahiwal 254,494 bales (56.17 per cent less), Pakpattan 66,478 bales (59.85 per cent less), Okara 22,148 bales (56.84 per cent less), Kasur 11,376 bales (46.47 per cent less), Toba Tek Singh 135,522 bales, Faisalabad 52,523 bales, Jhang 42,680 bales, Mianwali 339,571 bales, Bhakkar 82,459 bales, Sargodha 11,600 bales, Rahimyar Khan 1,112,641 bales (19.56 per cent less), Bahawalpur 734,050 bales and Bahawalnagar 911,678 bales.

In Sindh, Hyderabad received 250,607 bales (5.56 per cent less), Mirpur Khas 274,145 bales (31.28 per cent less), Sangarh 1,342,409 bales (10.62 per cent less), Nawabshah 312,622 bales, Naushero Feroze 283,084 bales, Khairpur 270,431 bales, Ghotki 320,362 bales, Sukkur 448,068 bales, Dadu 36,328 bales, Jamshoro 133,000 bales and Badin 31,645 bales while Balochistan received 57,045 bales. Total 79 ginning factories are operational in the country. Of them 68 are in Punjab and 11 in Sindh.