MULTAN: The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association demanded that the Trading Corporation of Pakistan resample the rejected cotton bales of ginning factories.
Addressing a media, Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association Group Chairman Haji Akram and Vice Chairman Rao Sadruddin and Shehzad Ali Khan said the rejected samples of the ginning factories should be re-sampled to test their quality.
Akram said the Trading Corporation of Pakistan had discarded the stocks of many ginning factories based on substandard cotton quality. He said that cotton factories were worried due to negligence of the government in buying the stock available in cotton factories. They said that it came into their notice that the TCP has refused to purchase the cotton without testing it.
Almost 14 million bales reached ginning factories until the first week of January. They had released the total figures of the cotton for December in media briefing. There are 799 cotton ginning factories in Punjab and more than 10 million cotton bales came in to the ginning factories.
As many as 155 factories are located in Sindh. Sindh has a stock of almost 3.8 million cotton bales in the cotton ginning factories. Around 74,050 cotton bales reached the ginning factories o Balochistan.
The TCP has acquired 192,000 cotton bales from the cotton factories in the last couple of weeks. Cotton exporters had bought 391,465 bales from various ginning factories in December.
Textile Industry has bought almost 11.4 million cotton bales during December from various ginning factories. There are almost 2.1 million cotton bales available for sale in the cotton ginning factories.
