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Standardisation to ensure production of pure
cotton
ISLAMABAD (April 13 2004): Implementation of the
cotton standardisation and grading system at the
grass-roots level is vital for the promotion of
contamination-free and clean cotton production in
the country.
The government has evolved a comprehensive
strategy to boost production of contamination-free
cotton for meeting growing challenges of the WTO
regime.
According to official sources on Monday, quality
control measures have been devised to fulfil the
requirements of export and domestic use of cotton
and the handling procedures for contamination-free
cotton in ginning factories.
The strategy envisaged standardisation of cotton
and recommendatory measures to the provincial
governments for producing contamination-free
cotton.
It has been decided to conduct grading of seed
cotton and classification of lint cotton through
its classes or the approved private inspection
companies.
The private inspection companies will be
pre-qualified for certifying the quality of
cotton.
TRAINING: Training in cotton grading and classes
for growers, ginners, spinners, exporters and
other persons of public and private sectors will
be conducted to achieve the objectives, the
sources added.
In addition, he said, "a campaign has also been
launched to encourage cotton growers and the
ginners for producing clean cotton with visible
improvement in bringing down the contamination
level to 5 grams per bale from 19 grams per bale."
The ginning factories in the districts of Rahimyar
Khan where PCSI prescribed procedures for the
production of high quality contamination-free
cotton had been fully adopted with the
contamination level ranging between 0.74 to 1.97
grams per bale.
The programme of clean cotton in the districts of
Ghotki and Sanghar in Sindh and Bahawalpur and
Rahimyar Khan in the Punjab as well as Dera Allah
Yar in Balochistan would continue during the
2003-04 season.
The production of clean cotton needs to be
expanded throughout the country for an overall
improvement in the cotton quality through
implementation of the cotton standardisation and
grading system at the ginneries' level as provided
under the Pakistan Cotton Standardisation
Ordinance.
The success of the programme would, however,
solely depend upon the response of the raw cotton
exporters and the textile mills in making payments
to the growers on the basis of grade and staple
rather than the varieties and stations.
Courtesy Business Recorder
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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