LAHORE: Repre­sen­tatives from the cotton industry have called on the federal government to urgently finalise Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) ag­­reements with major cotton-exporting countries, emphasising that the rev­ival of the country’s cotton crop depends on tim­ely access to advanced, high-yield seed varieties.

Shahzad Ali Malik, the founding chairman of the Pakistan Hi-Tech Hybrid Seed Association (PHHSA), believes that while the government’s recent decision to

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