41.   A poor cotton crop for the third consecutive year is being blamed for the drop in export revenue.

42.   Analysts blame the shortfall on everything from lax tax collection and rampant lawlessness in Karachi, to a poor cotton crop for the third straight year.

43.   Australian officials said the pesticide showed up in some meat after producers fed cattle with roughage from cotton crops that had been treated.

44.   Buckley said officials suspect the sprayed substance was sodium chlorate, used to defoliate cotton crops.

45.   Damaged cotton crop.

46.   However, the economy is still struggling and Pakistan is facing a poor cotton crop, which accounts for most of its export earnings.

47.   Laksmaya Jaggu bought pesticide to destroy black caterpillars that were ravaging his cotton crop.

48.   Kent Buckley of the Bolivar County Emergency Management Agency has said officials suspect the substance was sodium chlorate, used to defoliate cotton crops.

49.   Officials are hoping that a larger than expected cotton crop could reduce the trade deficit.

50.   The problems began after the government allowed private brokers to bid for the cotton crop, and they bought heavily for export or for inventory.