According to documents, cotton arrivals in Punjab were recorded at 3.5 million till Feb 2021, as compared to 5 million bales last year. On the other hand, Sindh generated just 2.1 million bales, which was 38.52pc less when compared with the last year’s production. “But yield has now declined to 24 million tonnes while production area has reduced to 8.8 million hectors.”Similarly, cotton production area shrank to 2.5 million hectors in Pakistan, with yield at 618kg per hector. In comparison, India was producing 29.4 million cotton bales, and China 27.5 million bales. Also, sugarcane production was recorded at 75.5 million tonnes on 1.2 million hectors last.

Source: Pakistan Today March 13, 2021 14:26 UTC