The Ministry of Textile Industry of the Pakistan government has repeated the Federal government’s resolve to modernize textile infrastructure and resolve the issues of textile sector industry, to enhance exports for economic growth. The Ministry of Textile was following a multi-pronged strategy to facilitate research and technology up-gradation for the protection and development of textile sector, it is understood.

This was revealed in a recent meeting of Federal Textile Board (FTB) Cotton Committee. An official of the ministry said experts and scientist trained 8,000 farmers to control losses of cotton crops and evolve measure against the pin ball virus that harmed cotton crops in past. He also said in recent times, farmers would get good prices for cotton as rise of its prices in international market would pay back to the farmer as compared to previous years when they got huge financial losses.

He said the preliminary meeting of International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) would be held here from October 30, where stakeholders would discuss challenges being faced by the textile sector. Delegations from government, private sector officials and scientists from 47 cotton producing countries would participate in the five-day long meeting, he informed.