General Body of PCGA lauded efforts & services of Dr.Jassu Mal


MULTAN, Feb 23rd: Chairman of Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association(PCGA) Dr.Jassu Mal and his team has attained landmark achievements in the shortest period of merely four months and now ginners are trouble free after joining the fixed tax regime. Tax managers cannot put them in audit nor issue any notice for payment of more than one percent tax. These observations were made by Malik Tufail Ahmed Senior Vice Chairman ,Chandar Lal, Vice Chairman,former Chairmen Haji Muhammad Akram,Suhail Mehmood Haral, Amanullah Qureshi,Mukhtar Baloch,Mahesh Kumar, Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khandwa, Sheikh Aasim Saeed, Ch.Waheed Arshad, Hafiz Abdul Latif, Luddo Mal,  Mehr Muhammad Ashraf Mahar,Mian Javed Tariq, Muhammad Arshad, Ch. Waheed Akhtar, Muhammad Ishaq,Khawaja Muhammad Arshad, Ghulam Musatafa,Imran Khan, Muhammad Maqbool, Rana Muhammad Jamil,Ch.Khalid Rafiq, Muhammad Shahbaz ,Muhammad Haroon Idrees, Ghulam Qadar Ahmed, Vanesh Kumar, Ropin Mal, Khalid Hanif Lodhi, Ch,.Imtiaz Ahmed, Iftikhar Ali Javed  Malik Nazar Khandwa,  Vinod Kumar, Nand lal, Dawood Karim ,Aqueel-ur-rehman Bhutta, Haq Nawaz and Secretary General Asif Khalil at an emergent meeting General body of PCGA chaired by its Chairman Dr.Jassu Mal. The speakers paid rich tributes to Dr.Jassu Mal for his  indefatigable efforts  to draw the attention of whole nation towards the less cotton production and other agricultural produce which caused a loss of 3 billion dollars. They said that it was a good news for all ginners that Government had made 1994 agreement a legal document through an ordinance. It might be considered as a big achievement. They reiterated their demand for announcement of support price of Rs.5000/- per maund for cotton besides incentives for farmers to attract them towards this crop. They said that there should be complete ban on sowing of crops other than cotton in this zone. Government should allow the private sector to import GMO and non-GMO seed and equal facility be granted to ginners as was given to textile mills and uniform power tariff must be introduced for industry. Chairman of PCGA Dr. Jassu Mal said that “The cotton cultivation area has witnessed over 33 percent decline during the last few years and the cotton crop has come down to its lowest level in the last three decades, reaching 0.5 million bales from 1.5 million cotton bales,” he added. He also informed that currently over 60 percent of ginning industry is completely closed due to lower cotton production in the country.He said that the massive decline in production is a complete failure of government policies and lake of concentration to the cotton crop. “If the government does not take serious steps for increase in cotton crop, Pakistan will be completely deprived of cotton cultivation and accordingly textile exports,” he warned.He demanded the federal and provincial governments to take serious notice of the worrisome situation in agriculture sector. “The government should formulate a special policy to modernize the cotton industry,” he suggested. The decline in cotton crop has not only affected cotton growers but also cotton ginners, spinning weaving industries, textile and export sectors. Chairman PCGA urged the federal and provincial government to take serious on the massive decline in the cotton crop to save the country’s textile industry.“The government should set up a Cotton Control Board on an emergency basis and set a target of 20 million cotton bales. Cotton crop zoning must be implemented in its true spirit,” he suggested.

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