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Poor quality cotton seed being sold, say
growers
SANGHAR, April 9: Growers of the district have
condemned marketing of substandard cotton seed by
some Punjab companies. Talking to this
correspondent on Thursday , Samo Dahri, Yar
Mohammad Leghari of the Sindh Abadgar Board and
others accused the Federal Seed Certification and
Registration Department of marketing the inferior
quality seed.
They alleged it contained eggs of pink ball worms.
The growers said the companies procure Niab-78
cotton seed from ginning factories and pack it in
beautiful cloth bags to sell it at exorbitant
rates. They alleged that the rate of cotton seed
in ginning factories was between Rs450 to Rs500
but the seed companies had been selling the same
at the rate of Rs1,200 to Rs1,500.
The multinational companies marketed the same at
Rs2,000 to Rs3,000. They said there were more than
11,000 workers in the agriculture extension
department and thousands in the research wing but
they had not been able to make a single bag of
seed.
They expressed serious reservations about the way
of issuing tags of certified seed to companies.
They demanded that the FSCRD should provide serial
numbers at least to every district headquarter in
Sindh.
They said at present growers were not able to
achieve desired plant population even after
applying more than 10kg seed, while the desired
plant population should have been 3-4kg on ridge
and 5-6kg on drill cultivation.
The DAWN
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