ICAC 75th Annual Plenary Meeting On Sunday

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 29th Oct, 2016 ) : The 75th annual plenary meeting of International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) would be held here on Sunday (Oct 30). The meeting would help in sharing the international best practices to overcome the issues and challenges faced by the cotton sector across the world.

As many as 130 international delegates from 30 countries are participating the meeting to share their knowledge and experiences to promote the cotton sector. The title of the current annual general meeting is "emerging dynamics in cotton, enhancing sustainability in cotton value chain".

Secretary General of ICAC has arrived here to participate the meeting and share their experience with other stakeholders in order to promote and develop the cotton sector of the world. The main objective of the 5-day long meeting is to discuss the issues and challenges being faced by the cotton sector and find out their remedial measures in order to produce clean cotton for consumption.

The other objective of the event is to showcase the local textile products and promote the textile industry in international markets to enhance local textile sector exports. The event would also help in promoting the soft image of Pakistan as about 425 people from international and local cotton market, textile industry, researchers, scientists, businessmen and growers are participating the event.

International scientists and cotton researchers would develop synergies to address the different issues and challenges which was reducing the crop output across the world. The field visit has also arranged for the visiting the delegates and industrialists for introducing them about the local textile industry.

Besides, during the event stall would also be established during the meeting in which local ginners, industrialists and growers would showcase their products for the delegates. It is worth mentioning here the ICAC was established in 1938 and Pakistan became its member in 1948 and previously ICAC meeting was held here in 1951.

It may be recalled here that local cotton output was estimated at about 11 million bales against the domestic requirements of 14 million bales. The government was taking appropriate measures to bridge the gap of demand and production gap, particularly producing the long staple cotton and started several programmes including growers training and introducing the innovative cultivation methodology.

The government was also devising policy to promote and enhance the textile exports which was on the declining trend by introducing the technological advancement.