The Sindh province contributed over 50% of the full cotton manufacturing of Pakistan this season.
Traditionally, the province’s share in cotton manufacturing has remained round 30%.
This yr, the province produced 4.092 million bales, up 121.16% from the final yr, whereas Punjab produced 4.078 million bales, up 47.66% year-on-year, in keeping with the most recent information from the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Affiliation (PCGA).
The information confirmed that 8.171 million bales of cotton arrived within the nation’s ginning factories until December 31, 2023, in contrast with 4.612 million bales final yr. Which means as many as 3.558 million bales of further cotton have arrived within the factories this yr, exhibiting a rise of 77.14%. A complete of 4.092 million bales have arrived within the cotton factories of Sindh province, which is 2.241 million bales, greater than the 1.850 million bales reaching the factories final yr.
As many as 4.078 million bales of cotton arrived within the factories of Punjab province, which is 1.316 million bales greater than the two.762 million bales of final yr.
Historically, with manufacturing primarily concentrated within the two provinces, roughly 65 to 70% of Pakistan’s cotton is was grown in Punjab, which has comparatively dry circumstances in southern elements, and the remainder is grown in Sindh, which has a warmer and extra humid local weather, whereas a negligible space is introduced beneath cotton in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
Sanghar in Sindh topped in reported arrivals of silver fiber within the province and the nation. As many as 1.68 million bales of cotton had been reported within the Sanghar district until December 31, 2023, adopted by Sukkur with arrivals of 0.54 million bales. In Punjab, Bahawalnagar district led by way of arrivals in ginning factories within the province. As per district-wise breakup, as many as 1.06 million bales of cotton had been reported in Bahawalnagar adopted by Rahim Yar Khan, registering 0.59 million bales.
The textile sector has bought 7.314 million bales of cotton thus far, whereas exporters/merchants have bought 0.292 million bales this season.
Regardless of successive bulletins by the federal and provincial governments, the Buying and selling Company of Pakistan (TCP) has not bought cotton from the farmers or ginners for the 2023-24 season. As many as 241 ginning factories are operational within the nation.
Cotton is a very powerful money crop in Pakistan and cotton merchandise export account for 55% of all international change earnings of the nation. About 25-30% of farmers develop cotton, and over 15% of the full cultivated space is dedicated to this crop. Cotton manufacturing accounts for 4.5% of the worth addition within the agriculture GDP and 0.8% of the nationwide GDP. It serves because the uncooked materials for the textile business, the nation’s largest agro-industrial sector, which employs 17% of the full workforce, and contributes 8.5% to GDP.
Over time, cotton manufacturing has not been adequate to fulfill the demand of the native textile business, which has to import it.