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A 10-member Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) delegation is leaving for Turkey on Tuesday to study mechanism for producing contamination free cotton at home. Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) chairman Syed Masood Alam Rizvi and his production deputy general will accompany the delegation. The delegation would be headed by PCGA chairman Haji Ibrahim. Its other members are PCGA vice-chairman Chaudhry Afzal, Mian Mahmood, Ghulam Mustafa, Dulip Kumar, Ramesh Lal, Kishan Chand, Haji Mohammad Akram, Khalil Ahmed and Nasir Malhi.

The delegation will visit major cotton producing and ginning centres in Turkey and get the first hand information about their processing and ginning facilities and later use the same skills and methods at home to produce clean and contamination free cotton.

The PCGA members' visit to Turkey is in line with their efforts to upgrade their ginning industries and produce contamination free cotton for the textile industry.

The government attaches great importance to quality cotton to provide contamination free lint to the textile industry.

For the same purpose it had announced premium some three years back on producing contamination free cotton.

Turkey is one of those countries that produce contamination free cotton and get major share in the international market by exporting quality cotton and its products.

Pakistan also produces good quality cotton but its contamination rate is perhaps highest in the world. This makes Pakistan's produce unattractive in the world market. High ratio of contamination also causes loss to stakeholders, farmers and ginners

Talking to Business Recorder, the PCGA chief on Monday said that Turkey's visit is of great significance for ginners as they would study methods applied by Turkish ginners to produce contamination free cotton.

He said PCGA members would also visit other countries to see themselves the ginning process for producing contamination free cotton.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2005


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