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Problems of the Cotton Textile Industry

  • Pakistan’s successive governments have failed to give sound politics and strategies for the interest of this sector.
  • Ginner’s do not have lint cleaners and other devices that reduce trash level.
  • Due to weeds, 31-40% lossin yield, cause high cotton rate, cotton is still picked by hands due to unavailability of machinery.
  • Failure of this sector, to establish downstream industries is also a big handicap because downstream industries could earn many times more foreign exchange than raw products earn.
  • Strong competition from newly industrialized countries (MC) like South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong & Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
  • Lack of institutional finance or modernization.
  • Lack of market forces to ensure a fair return to cotton grower.
  • Lack of co-ordination among different sub-sectors to regulate the market force for betterment of the textile sector as a whole.
  • Shutdown of power looms and spinning, weaving and cloth mills.
  • To restore difficulties of cotton textile sector, the government should restore the hedge market instead of revitalizing the cotton export corporation.
  • Government should safeguard the interests of small farmers. That means creation of a commodity fund contributed for and managed by farmers themselves.
  • To avert problems of farmers, traders and spinners, Pakistan needs an integrated cotton policy consistent with needs of both textile and clothing industry.
  • Government should devote greater funds for research in cottonseeds, which could improve quality and staple length.
  • Although cotton research institutes at Multan and Skarand (Sindh) and the Pakistan Cotton Standard Institute (PCSI) are doing a lot, but due to lack of co-ordination, results are not very satisfactory.
  • The Integrated Pest Management (1PM), may prove effective in the use of pesticide because its indiscriminate use is harming the environment and human health. For removal of cotton weeds there should BC environment friendly methods.

    • Realizing the importance of Textile Industry the Government has constituted a working group and has identified industry exports targets. The specially appointed committee approved “Textile Vision 2005.”

    In order to implement the recommendations of “Textile Vision 2005”. A high level “Federal Textile Board” will continuously monitor progress for investment in spinning and import of machinery. Efforts will be made to revive closed spinning units. Technology up gradation would be sought in the weaving sector.

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