巴基斯坦担心棉花产量下降

 

Declining cotton production worries Pakistan

Voicing concern over sharp decline in cotton production and area under cotton cultivation, Senate Standing Committee on Textile Sector in Pakistan has called on the government to take up special measures to arrest the downward trend.
Pointing out that 80 % of cotton crop was used for generating export-oriented products, Senator Mohsin Aziz, who presided over the committee meeting on Tuesday said, farmers were switching over to other cash crops such as maize and sugarcane as they were not receiving fair price for their produce.
Already the Textile industry was facing severe hardship due to the absence of an exclusive textile policy, he said and warned that the declining trends would affect exports adversely.
The committee was informed that cotton production in Punjab last year fell 43% compared to the preceding year, mainly due to unprecedented rains in the area. In Punjab, cotton cultivation acreage fell to 430,000 acres this year as compared to 540,000 acres last year, media reports said.
Noted Textile industrialist Mr Akbar Seth, who was invited as special guest in the committee, claimed that last year growers had to face Rs 22 billion worth of losses due to price variation in the open market.

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巴基斯坦担心棉花产量下降

表达了对棉花产量和棉花种植面积急剧下降的关心，巴基斯坦参议院常务委员会已经呼吁政府采取特殊措施阻止下行趋势。

指出80%的棉花作物用于生产出口型产品,参议员Mohsin Aziz,在周二主持委员会议上说,农民转到种植其他经济作物如玉米和甘蔗，因为他们的产品没有获得公平的价格。

纺织行业已经面临严重的困难，由于没有独家的纺织政策,他警告说,下降趋势将对出口产生不利影响。

委员会被告知, 去年旁遮普棉花产量比前一年下降了43%,主要是由于前所未有的暴雨。在旁遮普,今年棉花种植面积下降到43万英亩，相较去年为54万英亩,媒体报道。

被邀请作为委员会特别嘉宾的纺织实业家Akbar Seth先生声称，去年种植者不得不面对价值220亿卢比的损失，由于公开市场价格的变化。