Cotton production in Pakistan

The nation is largely dependent on the cotton industry and its related textile sector, and the crop has been given a principal status in the country.

[2] Cotton was discovered in threads on a copper bead at a burial site dated to the Neolithic period (6000 BC).

[2][3] Cotton cultivation became more widespread during the Indus Valley civilisation, which covered parts of present-day eastern Pakistan and northwestern India.

[4] Archaeobotanical evidence of seeds has been traced to 5000 BC in Mehrgarh, though it is not clear if they belonged to a wild or cultivated variety.

[5] At Harappa (Mature Harappan period 2500-2000 BC), evidence of cotton threads has been found tied to the handle of a mirror, an antiquity from a female burial site, and around a copper razor.

Cotton hybrids, created by crossing the Bt gene into traditional varieties, have been developed by local firms dealing with seeds.

[9] In Sindh province cotton is grown in more than one million acres in the districts of Benazirabad, Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Mirpur Khas, Naushero Feroz, Sanghar, Badin, Sukkar, Ghotki, Tharparkar, Thatta, and Umar Kot.

Long-staple kinds of cotton have relatively longer fiber, are expensive, and used mostly to make fine fabrics, yarns, and hosiery.

[14] Apart from use in textiles in the form of cotton lint, yarn, thread, cloth, and garments, its seeds are used for oil extraction.

Pests like White Fly, Mealy Bugs, Aphids, Pink Boll Worm infect the plants reducing yield.

According to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report of 2015, the passage of these laws is crucial to the introduction of new biotech events.