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Agri depatt suggests tips for cotton growers
Lahore-Agriculture Department Punjab has suggested some tips
for cotton growers to obtain contamination free cotton and
ultimately to fetch good price.
A spokesman of the department said in a statement that
careless handling of cotton during picking and transport
results in its contamination with moisture, immature bolls,
twigs, leaves, human and animal hair, cigarettes, jute twines
and ropes, shoppers,
plastic fibers, toffee wrappers etc.
"Due to these contaminants, farmers do not get good price of
their cotton,'' he observed.
To avoid contamination, he suggested the cotton growers to
take the following precautions during picking and transport of
cotton. Start cotton picking only when 50 percent bolls are
open. Do not pick half-opened bills Pick cotton when dew dries
off.
Pickers should completely cover their head with a cloth made
of cotton and use cotton cloth as picking `pallies.' Begin
picking form lower parts of plants and go upwards gradually.
Do not store picked cotton in shady and moist places. Store it
at a dry place in the sun on a plastic sheet, cotton cloth or
turpaulin.
Before weighing pick out the contaminants carefully from the
picked seed cotton.
Fill the picked cotton in cotton bags only and use cotton
ropes/twines for stitching these bags. While transporting seed
cotton to ginning factory cover the cotton filled tractor
trolleys with cotton cloth or cotton made nets (Trangars). Do
not use jute cloth for covering trolleys.
November 23, 2001
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