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Contamination free cotton policy
LAHORE-A comprehensive
policy to achieve the contamination free Cotton is under
consideration of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry
for Commerce & Industry, learnt The Nation on good authority.
As per the proposed policy, the government is considering to
pay extra price to those growers who will produce
contamination free Cotton. A premium of Rs 100 to Rs 150 will
be granted to the growers on the production of contamination
free Cotton. Another facility of easy availability of
fertilizer to such growers is also part of the policy.
According to some unofficial estimates, the government has
suffered a loss of $ 350 million due to the contaminated
Cotton this year.
Some of the independent observers have pointed out that the
main reason for the contamination of Cotton. They have
maintained that the redundant research institutes must be
abolished as they have failed to suggest the protective
measures to the growers. Instead of, according to the experts,
field workers must be recruited in the agriculture department
with an assignment of training the growers on the issue.
They added that a major portion of funds allocated for the
research and development are being spent on the administrative
side and about 15 per cent of the allocation is spent on the
research, which is insufficient in all sense. They have
suggested that there must be a balance in the administrative
cost and further added that research about the marketing of
Cotton must also be taken up in the government policy.
July 4
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