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High prices and rain help Australia double its cotton crop

11/10/2010
Australia’s cotton output will almost double in the 2010–11 season because farmers have been attracted to the crop by prices that are close to a 15-year high and because there has been enough rain in cotton-growing areas to boost crops.

Reuters has quoted the industry body that promotes exports of the fibre Cotton Australia as saying production could reach 3.5 million bales, nearly double the 1.8 million bales produced in 2009–10.

Cotton Australia spokesman David Bone commented: “We have had good crops in the past and good prices but you don’t often get them in one year.”

Australia’s cotton output fell as low as 585,000 bales in 2007–08 when drought conditions affected crops badly.

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