January ,2002

• Rice exports fetch $220m
• Wheat sown over 8.8 lakh acres in RY Khan
• Export of kinnoo restarts
• No let-up in cotton buying spree
• Impurities in cotton lowered to five grams
• Sugar prices fall
• Cotton market lacks buying interest
• Release of transgenic cotton varieties
• Active buying on cotton market
• Iraq may allow private sector to handle shipment
• Cotton to be sown at 3.125m hectares
• Cotton easy amid thin trading
• 'Increase in cotton cultivation areas needed'
• Cotton crop size estimated at 10.4m bales
• TCP announces new procurement rates for cotton
•  Iranian delegation arriving to hold talks on exp of rice
• Private cos to be allowed to buy seeds
• Rice output faces shortfall
• Govt worries about wheat sales to WFP
• Iran to procure 45,000 tonnes Pak rice after Ramazan
• 10.4 milliion bales cotton production
• Pakistan to achieve agri targets: Junejo