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Pakistan’s CCAC lowers cotton estimates for the current season

Pakistan's Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC), industry sources claim, has revised the cotton estimates to 10.85 million for the current season compared to the initial estimates of 15.49 million bales, representing a decline by over 30 per cent.

According to the local media report the cotton production estimates may further decline. And while the fourth meeting of the CCAC was held recently and attended by representatives of provincial agriculture departments (Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa), officials from Pakistan Central Cotton Committee, Pakistan Cotton Standards Institute, Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) and grower members from Sindh, there was no statement issued by the Ministry of Textiles about the outcome.

The Pakistan Government was expecting to achieve a cotton target of 15.49 million bales from 7.7 million acres for 2015-16. Punjab was projected to produce 10.5 million bales from six million acres; however it missed the sowing target and grew cotton on 5.6 million acres registering a decline of about six per cent. After the pest attacks, cotton crop was badly damaged and the projection was revised downward to 7.4 million bales.

 
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