Cotton arrivals jump 25.5% to 1m bales across Pakistan

Cotton arrivals at factories across the country reached 1,113,513 bales through August 15, 2026, according to the Pakistan Cotton Ginners' Association. That total is 25.48 per cent higher than the 887,401 bales recorded in the same period of 2025. Mettis Global reported the figures, which were drawn from data the association released.

Of those arrivals, 1,019,025 bales were pressed, and 950,817 were sold: textile mills bought 937,817 bales while exporters and traders took 13,000. Nothing was bought under the TCP scheme. Unsold stock came to 68,208 bales, and a further 94,488 bales had not yet been ginned, against 47,414 a year earlier.

Sindh drove the steeper gain, with arrivals up 41.80 per cent to 734,302 bales, while Punjab rose only 2.61 per cent to 379,211 bales. Sanghar alone accounted for 550,745 bales, a 40.98 per cent jump, and 268 ginning factories operated during the period, 112 in Punjab and 156 in Sindh. Across the country unsold stock reached 162,696 bales, compared with 80,913 bales last year.