ISLAMABAD: Cotton Development Commissioner (CDC), Khalid Abdullah has said recent damage is bigger than last year’s floods.
He
said about 2.7 million cotton bales worth Rs.3.5 billion were destroyed
during recent flash floods in Sindh province as about 23 cotton growing
districts of the province were badly affected due to torrential rains.
He
stated that cotton crop was grown in 23 districts across the province.
Out of these cotton growing districts in the province, seven districts
produced 80 per cent of the total crop production and about 74 per cent
of the total output was damaged due to recent flash floods in the
province, he added. “Recent damage is bigger than last year’s floods
when about 2.4 million cotton bales were destroyed across the cotton
growing areas in the country. This time 2.7 million bales were damaged
alone in Sindh province,” he added.
Abdullah further said that
cotton crop was also affected in Punjab where about standing crop over
50,000 acres was damaged due to recent heavy rains. Online
