Cotton ginners seeks special relief package for promotion of cotton.

MULTAN -- The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has asked the government to provide relief package for the ginning industry in order to promote cotton, save employment of million of workers and improving living standard of cotton farmers.

Talking to media here on Sunday, PCGA chairman Muhammad Javed Suhail Rehmani, senior vice chairman Hareesh Kumar, vice chairman Hafiz Abdul Lateef and other representatives said that ginning industry was not provided much needed relief package in the budget.

They alleged that burden of taxes had decrease the cotton cultivation and pandemic COVID-19 also inflicted huge loss to ginners,textile sector and also to farming community. The cotton factories could not sell their stock due to pandemic of coronavirus circumstances. Similarly, they could not make recoveries from textile sector due to COVID-19 situation.

The PCGA representative demanded of the...