LAHORE: The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) released a statement on Friday stating that the textile industry hopes to increase the quantity and quality of cotton it produces by introducing new protocols and technological advancements that ensure sustainability and traceability.
In order to attain high per-acre productivity, traceability, and sustainability, APTMA North Chairman Kamran Arshad said the organization has concentrated on enhancing the quality of cotton as a raw material, comparable to that of Brazil and India.
During a heated discussion on the Traceable and Sustainable Cotton Initiative, Shad Mustafa, an expert for the Mehrgarh Cotton Initiative, addressed.
Mustafa informed the APTMA members on how his team used drones, blockchain, and GPS to track and record the information flow on the fields, increasing cotton production under the project.
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He claims that the US government now takes child labor and human rights issues seriously and is requiring traceability for textile imports.
According to Mustafa, his group made sure that the project took into account appropriate labor standards, soil management, water stewardship, biodiversity, crop protection, and land usage. To guarantee production quality, a QR code was created from the traceability system. As a result, the staple length was longer than usual, and the waste percentage was lower than the market average of 9%, coming in at roughly 7.5 percent.
Mustafa asserts that his team sought the assistance of foreign insurance companies to provide crop insurance in the event of natural disasters because local insurance companies were unable to pay out on a loss. He claimed that they used insecticides to lessen the damage that pests like armyworms, pink bollworms, jassids, and white flies caused.
With support from the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), they intend to extend the project to 7,000 acres in Sindh province.
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