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Ginners commit to pay Rs

200 per maund extra for clean

contamination free cotton

Mr Malik Nauman Ahmad Langrial, Punjab Minister officials, researchers and representatives.
for Agriculture informed that ginners have
committed to pay a premium price of Rs 200 extra The meeting deliberated upon the cotton THE SMARTER
per maund for contamination free - clean cotton. production targets for the Punjab province and
measures to be adopted for achieving them. The
He said the dept. would monitor input quality and departments presented data about the availability
prices and all efforts will be made for provision of of essential inputs (fertilizer, pesticide) and canal WAY TO INDIGO
essential inputs for the cotton crop at affordable water irrigation situation and electricity supply
prices. position in the coming season.

He said this while presiding over a meeting of Mr Jahangir Khan Tareen also spoke on the
Cotton Crop Management Group (CCMG) at occasion and stated that the federal government
Central Cotton Research Institute (CCRI) Multan. Mr would play its role in achieving the cotton
Jahangir Khan Tareen, Senior Pakistan PTI leader production target of 15 million bales set by Prime
was also present at the meeting along with other Minister Imran Khan.

Funds of Rs 46.200m approved

for “1,000 Industrial Stitching Units”

Funds of Rs 46.200mn for “1,000 Industrial Stitching Units” project has been approved by the Planning
Commission to promote the public-private partnership to boost the value addition in the field of textile
garments. An MoU has been signed with SMEDA for its execution.
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1st Phase of the project for Establishment of 150 Industrial Stitching Units (ISU) was approved by CDWP on
15th January 2018 at a total cost of Rs.350.545mn. However, no allocation from PSDP was made during the
current financial year 2019-20.

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