• Nearly 40pc of Pakistan’s sugar-milling capacity now concentrated in former top cotton district Rahim Yar Khan and its border belt
• Shift from cotton to sugarcane blamed for water depletion, soil degradation, and rising water table
LAHORE: Persistent violations of crop-zoning rules for sugarcane and the unchecked establishment of new sugar mills have drastically reshaped Rahim Yar Khan — once Pakistan’s largest cotton-producing district — where sugar-milling capacity is rapidly expanding both within the distric
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