Bangladesh plans to lift the requirement of double fumigation for importing cotton from the United States (US) on case-to-case basis - after getting the field-level inspection report from agri officials, sources said.
The cotton fumigation procedure will be monitored by a team of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) officials. The withdrawal of double-fumigation of cotton had been requested by the United States long back.
The US hadalso requested for the consideration certificates of accredited labs stating that the cotton is free of Boll Weevil, an insect whose larva can remain alive in cotton for nearly 11 months even after fumigation.
The US has been arguing that double fumigation of cotton has financial involvement, and it is also a time-consuming process, which discourages Bangladeshi millers to import cotton from America.
