KARACHI: The cotton association has said that the excessive use of jute bags is damaging quality of cotton.
A senior member of Karachi Cotton Association and member of Pakistan Yarn Merchant Association alleged that the government has failed to implement the ban on the use of jute and polypropylene bags for the transportation of seed cotton.
Ghulam Rabbani said that a large quantity of raw lint is still being packed in material detrimental to the quality and moister of the stuff. Cotton can fetch better price in the international market if the problem of contamination in raw crop, use of polypropylene bags and standardised system for production is fully implemented, he added.
Rabbani said that Pakistan exports around 61 percent of its cotton in the shape of raw cotton, yarn, cloth and garments while the remaining cotton is used domestically in the form of finished products. He said seed cotton should be brought to the ginning factories in cotton cloth bags or open trolleys, while market committees of the selected lint production districts in Punjab and Sindh should be mobilised effectively to check contamination of cotton by traders during storage.
