PAKISTAN COTTON CROP SEEN RECORD 7.6 MLN BALES
Pakistan is likely to produce a record
7.6 mln bales (375 lbs each) of cotton from the current 1986/87
crop, exceeding a target of 7.2 mln bales, Food and Agriculture
Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Baluch said.
    He told a Pakistan Central Cotton Committee meeting here
the present was the third consecutive poroduction
record-setting year and said the momentum would be accelerated
in the future, the official APP news agency reported.
    Baluch said indications were that Pakistan is to attain a
record cotton production of 7.6 mln bales, compared to the
1985/86 crop of 7.2 mln bales which also represented the target
earlier set by authorities for this year's production.
 Reuter
