December 30, 2003	Tuesday	Ziqa’ad 6, 1424

RAHIM YAR KHAN, Dec 29: The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has rejected the report of the Cotton Crop Committee, which claims that the total production of cotton this year would be 10 million bales.

According to PCGA, the maximum production of cotton could hardly be nine million bales which is almost 3.5 million bales below the requirement.

The PCGA central committee meeting, presided by chairman Saith Geatha Nand, was held here on Sunday.

The meeting was told that according to the figures taken from the cotton ginners of the whole country, the maximum cotton production could be 9 million bales and the report released by cotton crop assessment committee was totally wrong and based only on imagination.

The members said that a particular lobby and some elements were spreading rumours for their personal interests about the cotton production.

Their purpose was only to harm the farmers and cotton ginners and to bankrupt them.

The meeting formed a committee to negotiate ginners sales tax issue with member sales tax CBR.

The members also gave their consent to construction of building of PCGA Bahawalpur circle in RYK.

It was also decided that PCGA would be made more effective and increase the membership.

The vice chairmen of five circles of PCGA, Haji Mohammad Ibrahim, Mian Mehmood Ahmed, Sheikh Saeed Ahmed, Malik Talat Husain, and Maheesh Kummar and other members attended the meeting.