Agriculture department to introduce best quality cotton seed

F.P. Report

MULTAN: Agriculture department has started work on a project to introduce latest cotton seed in 2022 having maximum capacity to bear environmental changes and virus attacks.

According to a handout issued here on Sunday, bio-technology laboratory and transformation system would be set up for this project.

The project titled “Commissioned Research for Development of Cotton Seed” would be completed with Rs 363 million. The project would be completed in five years to provide best quality cotton seed to farmers in 2022 in order to increase per acre production.

Agriculture department would spent Rs 100 million in the current fiscal year 2017-18 and the project would be started initially in Faisalabad, Multan, Vehari, Sahiwal, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan, it was stated.