Karachi Cotton Brokers Forum (KCBF), in their budget proposals for the year 2020-21 sent to Prime Minister Imran Khan, have demanded a separate cotton ministry to look after the affairs of the cotton trade exclusively. According to the proposals, KCBF demands the government should impose ban on cultivation of paddy and sugarcane and setting up of sugar mills in the areas already earmarked for cultivation of cotton. A system should be evolved for monitoring of the cotton at district level. The government should fix the support price of cotton in order to encourage the farmers.

The government should mobilize all resources at federal and provincial level to increase per acre yield and to bring more area under cotton cultivation particularly in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It should also encourage farmers who are taking interest in cultivation of organic cotton in Balochistan.

Also, the government should ensure the supply of certified cotton seed/BT seed to the growers. Awareness should be created among growers for using modern integrated pest management system. All the cotton research institutes of the country should work hard to make virus resistance cotton seed varieties.

KCBF also demands that government should made necessary arrangements to import pure and certified seeds in small packing instead of importing in bulk. It is pertinent to mention here that large quantity of cotton crop was destroyed every year due to the supply of adulterated pesticides to the growers.