Bad Weather May Lead To A Decline In Cotton Production In China.

2010/11/9 13:03:00 42

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This year, our country's

Cotton yield

It may be reduced by 5% because of low planting area and bad weather in the south, an official from the national development and Reform Commission said.

This year's cotton planting area may drop by 1 million mu, and the bad weather is delayed.

Yangtze river basin

Cotton planting, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission's rural economic division, said at a conference held in Beijing.

The dialect did not state the harvest this year, and her estimate was consistent with the estimate of the China Cotton Association, but it was 1.6% higher than the US Department of agriculture expected.

However, based on China's official figures, it is predicted that this year's cotton production is estimated to be the lowest official estimate.

China's Ministry of Statistics announced that cotton production last year was 6 million 400 thousand tons.

Ministry of Agriculture

The figure is 6 million 700 thousand tons.

Dialect estimates that a decline of 5% indicates that this year's cotton production has dropped to 6 million 80 thousand tons -637 million tons, which is lower than Reuters's survey of 6 Chinese analysts last month. These analysts estimate cotton production to be 6 million 450 thousand tons.

The China Cotton Association has lowered its estimate of cotton production for the two time this year, currently estimated at 6 million 640 thousand tons.