Indian cotton crop will be smaller
16/02/2009
India’s state-run Cotton Advisory Board (CAB) has lowered its estimate for the current year’s crop output by 8.6% to 29 million bales, equivalent to around 6.6 billion kilos of the fibre.
Textile commissioner, Anil Joshi, said on February 13 that he expected output to fall for the season to fall because of lower acreage, delayed, inadequate or excessive rains, and crop disease.
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