Cotton farmers and related industries are facing another crisis year. Even though early reports were showing a 40% year-on-year increase in cotton arrivals by mid-September, trade groups are warning that these figures are masking a dire reality. Extreme weather events, including devastating heatwaves, torrential rains and catastrophic floods, coupled with the relentless spread of cotton leaf curl virus — outbreaks of which caused declines of as much as 35% in the 1990s — have placed Pakistan's most........

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