{"id":1147623,"date":"2026-01-18T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1147623"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:03:11","slug":"cotton-arrivals-cross-5-49m-bales-by-jan-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/cotton-arrivals-cross-5-49m-bales-by-jan-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton arrivals cross 5.49m bales by Jan 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>MULTAN, Jan 18 (APP):Seed cotton (phutti) equivalent to 5.49 million bales reached ginning factories across Pakistan by January 15, 2026,showing a marginal increase of 0.13 per cent compared to the same period last year.<\/div>\n<div>According to a fortnightly report of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) released on Sunday,over 5.4 million bales have been processed and converted into lint.<\/div>\n<div>Punjab recorded cotton arrivals of 2,586,229 bales,a decline of 3.73 percent compared to 2,686,521 bales during the corresponding period last year.<\/div>\n<div>In contrast,Sindh reported arrivals of 2,910,723 bales,registering an increase of 3.83 percent from 2,803,297 bales last year.Cotton arrivals in Balochistan stood at 178,860 bales.<\/div>\n<div>During the period under review,exporters and traders purchased 176,000 bales,while the textile sector bought 4,841,643 bales.<\/div>\n<div>The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) did not procure any cotton during the 2025\u201326 season,the report said.<\/div>\n<div>The PCGA report further noted that 479,309 bales remained unsold,while a total of 127 ginning factories were operational across the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MULTAN, Jan 18 (APP):Seed cotton (phutti) equivalent to 5.49 million bales reached ginning factories across Pakistan by January 15, 2026,showing a marginal increase of 0.13 per cent compared to the same period last year. According to a fortnightly report of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) released on Sunday,over 5.4 million bales have been processed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[4414,4415],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1147623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-5-49m","tag-pcga","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147623"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1147623"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1147623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}