Around 3,000 hectares out of it was damaged in Mansa, leaving 3.79 lakh hectares. BATHINDA: There are contradictory claims pertaining to the area under cotton crop for the sowing season 2017-18 in Punjab. If there is change in area, new figures will emerge.”Punjab agriculture department director J S Bains said that initially the department had calculated figures at 3.82 lakh hectares. So we reverted to paddy,” said Gurdial Singh, Bhagwant Singh and a score of farmers in Bathinda. The lint is prepared by ginning process which comes out at 1/3rd or 34% of total raw cotton.
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