Saraikistan

Textile Industries

Hussain Group
We are one of the leading, renowned and recognized Textile Group from 1986 with a vision to create goodwill and a brand image for our company, our products and our country through establishing long term partnerships with suppliers and customers and in textile industry make our presence felt useful in all parts of the globe by conducting business within the framework of ethical business values and on our core business of textiles. We however will be ready to take upon all calling opportunities in international trade. 
http://www.hussaingroup.com

 ZEYNEB TEXTILE MILLS (PVT) Ltd
 was established in 1998 in Multan-Pakistan (a city well known for its Yarn Dyed Products). We are mainly manufactures and exporters of all kind of 100% Cotton Yarn Dyed Fabrics, Home Textile, Bed Linen, Table Linen, Hotel and Motal Towels, Bath towel, Bath Robe, and Terry towel Products.
http://www.zeynebtextile.com/ 

Mahmood Group
Mahmood Group started business in 1935, by setting up a tanning unit and we have since evolved into a business empire. An empire that comprises of cotton growing to finished apparel, tanneries, real estate and food industries. We have customers all over the globe and annual turnover of US $ 300 million and growing. Mahmood Group now encompasses eight companies having a workforce of 11,000 employees and 22 manufacturing units.

http://www.mahmoodgroup.com


Sugar Industries

Fatima Sugar Mills Private Limited [Fatima Group Of Companies] +92-61-4512031

Fatima Sugar Mills Private Limited [Fatima Group Of Companies] +92-66-2250515

Agriculture is mainstay of Pakistan's economy. It accounts for 21% of the GDP and together with agro-based products fetches 80% of the country’s total export earnings. More than 48% of the labour force is engaged in this sector.
The Punjab province has about 29% of the total reported, 57% of the total cultivated and 69% of the total cropped area of Pakistan. It contributes a major share in the agricultural economy of the country by providing about 83% of cotton, 80% of wheat, 97% fine aromatic rice, 63% of sugarcane and 51% of maize to the national food production. Among fruits, mango accounts for 66%, citrus more than 95%, guava 82% and dates 34% of total national production of these fruits.

Land Use Statistics

	(Million Hactares)	(Million Acres)
Geographical Area	20.63	50.98
Total Area Reported	17.49	43.22
Forest Area	0.49	1.21
Not available for Cultivation	2.95	7.29
Culturable Waste	1.56	3.85
Cultivated Area	12.49	30.86
Current Fallow	1.39	3.43
Net Area Sown	11.10	27.43
Area Sown more than once	5.86	14.48
Total Cropped area	16.96	41.91

Source: Agricultural Statistics of Pakistan 2008-09

Farm Size Statistics

Size of Farm (Hectares)	Farm		Farms Area		Avg. size of Farm Area (Hectares)
	Number	%	Hectares	%
All Farms	3,864,166	*	11,261,963	*
Government Farms	96	*	26,802	*
Private Farms	3,864,070	100	11,235,161	100	2.9
Under 0.5	703,638	18	201,112	2	0.3
0.5 to under 1.0	617,265	16	459,408	4	0.7
1.0 to under 2.0	844,219	22	1,166,753	10	1.4
2.0 to under 3.0	597,863	15	1,403,901	12	2.3
3.0 to under 5.0	536,361	14	2,081,497	19	3.9
5.0 to under 10.0	368,362	10	2,422,326	22	6.6
10.0 to under 20.0	149,018	4	1,858,563	17	12.5
20.0 to under 40.0	36,696	1	909,254	8	24.8
40.0 to under 60.0	5,712	*	263,095	2	46.1
60.0 and above	4,932	*	469,257	4	95.1

* = Negligible
Source: - Census of Agriculture-2000 (Agricultural Statistics of Pakistan 2008-09)

Major Achievements   

• Record Production of Paddy and Wheat during 2008-09
• Green Tractor Scheme
  • 10,000 tractors were provided last year on subsidy worth Rs. 2 billion and the same number of tractors are being provided in 2009-10.
• Approval of Bt Cotton Varieties
  • Eight BT varieties and One hybrid variety have been approved for cultivation in punjab during 2010-11 by Punjab Seed Council.
• Establishment of Foundation Seed Cell in AARI
• Reactivation of Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) after 11 years
• 50% reduction in incidence of pesticide adulteration i.e. from 16% to 8%
• Establishment of Punjab Agricultural Marketing Company (PAMCO)
• 30 crop varieties were approved /released during last three years
• A mango consignment sent to EU by sea to reduce freight charges 

Current Initiatives

• One cold storage established at Lahore and four approved for Rahim Yar Khan, Islamabad, Faisalabad and Multan airports
• Kinnow & Mango pack houses & cold storages are proposed at Bhalwal and Multan
• Research Institutes for Mango and Potato established at Multan and Sahiwal
• To increase seed stock capacity of Punjab Seed Corporation by 23% over the next 3 years
• Steps taken for hybrid seed production
• MOU between PSC and M/S Silverland Company to form joint venture for production of hybrid vegetable seeds and Bt Cotton varieties
• Timely campaign against white fly has been initiated on spring crops

Seraiki is the most widely spoken language in Pakistan and the first language of more than 80 million people in the subcontinent. Among those 50 Million are in Pakistan and 30 Million are in India.
Seraiki is the 61st largest language out of more than 6000 languages in the world. It has a very rich culture and is the representative language of Sindh Valley Civilization.
The main Seraiki speaking areas are Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan and most parts of Sargodha division. Seraiki is also spoken widely in Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. It has many sweet dialects and is considered as the language of love.
Seraiki is the language of love and literature. Rich cultural context and diversity of expression in the language have enabled Seraiki poets and prose writers to produce literature masterpieces. Seraiki poetry has different themes. Love for beloved and love for land can be identified as major ones. Sufi poets have used this language not only to speak to people but also to God. Seraiki people have a natural flair for poetry and literature. Most of the Seraiki literature is unrecorded for the reason that no formal patronage has been provided to poets and writers. Before the inception of Pakistan, Seraiki was written in Devnagri script and converting to Arabic/ Persian script resulted in the loss of a substantial part of literature.

Saraiki is member of the Indo-Aryan subdivision of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Standard Punjabi and Saraiki (South Punjabi) are mutually intelligible; they slightly differ in consonant inventory and in the structure of the verb. Saraiki is about 80% intelligible with Dogri.
In 1919, Grierson maintained that the dialects of what is now the southwest of Punjab Province in Pakistan constitute a dialect cluster, which he designated "Southern Lahnda" within a putative "Lahnda language". Subsequent Indo-Aryanist linguists have confirmed the reality of this dialect cluster, even while rejecting the name "Southern Lahnda" along with the entity "Lahnda" itself.^[25]:18-20 Grierson also maintained that "Lahnda" was his novel designation for various dialects up to then called "Western Punjabi", spoken north, west, and south of Lahore. The local dialect of Lahore is the Majhi dialect of Punjabi, which has long been the basis of standard literary Punjabi.^[26] However, outside of Indo-Aryanist circles, the concept of "Lahnda" is still found in compilations of the world's languages (e.g., Ethnologue).
The historical inventory of names for the dialects now called Saraiki is a confusion of overlapping or conflicting ethnic, local, and regional designations. "Hindki/Sarhadi", "Hindko" and "Panjistani" (pothwari-dhanni-mirpuri-pahari) – which means merely "of North" – refer to various Saraiki and even non-Saraiki dialects in Punjab Province and farther north within the country, due to the fact they were applied by arrivals from Afghanistan or Persia. One historical name for Saraiki, Jaṭki, means "of the Jaṭṭs", a northern South Asian ethnic group; but Jaṭṭs speak the Indo-Aryan dialect of whatever region they live in. Only a small minority of Saraiki speakers are Jaṭṭs, and not all Saraiki speaking Jaṭṭs necessarily speak the same dialect of Saraiki. However, these people usually call their traditions as well as language as Jataki. Conversely, several Saraiki dialects have multiple names corresponding to different locales or demographic groups. When consulting sources before 2000, it is important to know that Pakistani administrative boundaries have been altered frequently. Provinces in Pakistan are divided into districts, and sources on "Saraiki" often describe the territory of a dialect or dialect group according to the districts. Since the founding of Pakistan in 1947, several of these districts have been subdivided, some multiple times. Until 2001, the territorial structure of Pakistan included a layer of divisions between a province and it's districts. The name dialect name "Ḍerawali" is used to refer to the local dialects of both Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail Khan, but "Ḍerawali" in the former is the Multani dialect and "Ḍerawali" in the latter is the Thaḷi dialect.^{[25]:Appendix I:220-245[26]:239ff} The critical point in categorizing Saraiki is that many dialects traditionally considered as Saraiki are also claimed by Punjabi scholars. For instance, Multani and Derawali are dialects of Saraiki but the regions where these dialects are spoken are part of Punjab as there is no Saraiki speaking independent province. In the National Census of Pakistan (1981), Saraiki, Pahari-Potohari or "Modern Panjistani" and Hindko (Before categorized as "Western Punjabi") got the status of separate languages.