PAKISTAN COTTON CROP SEEN RECORD 7.6 MLN BALES
  Pakistan is likely to produce a record
  7.6 mln bales (375 lbs each) of cotton from the current 1986/87
  crop, exceeding a target of 7.2 mln bales, Food and Agriculture
  Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Baluch said.
      He told a Pakistan Central Cotton Committee meeting here
  the present was the third consecutive poroduction
  record-setting year and said the momentum would be accelerated
  in the future, the official APP news agency reported.
      Baluch said indications were that Pakistan is to attain a
  record cotton production of 7.6 mln bales, compared to the
  1985/86 crop of 7.2 mln bales which also represented the target
  earlier set by authorities for this year's production.
  

