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  • India Cotton output set to grow
    Sun 20, 2016
  • Cotton production in 2015-16 season stood at 338 lakh bales (of 170 kg each), Textile Commissioner Kavita Gupta told reporters here after the season's first meeting of the Cotton Advisory Board.

    Cotton production is estimated to increase by 3.84 percent in the 2016-17 season (beginning from October 1) to 351 lakh bales compared to the previous year, a top Central Government official said.

    Cotton production in 2015-16 season stood at 338 lakh bales (of 170 kg each), Textile Commissioner Kavita Gupta told reporters here after the season's first meeting of the Cotton Advisory Board. "The increase in production is mainly estimated on the basis of good monsoon, no pest attack and high density plantation in the southern zone," Gupta said.

    Even as the total area is expected to decline by 11.59 percent to 105 lakh hectares this year, compared to 118.77 lakh hectares, the output is expected to be higher due to increase in yield, she said.

    The total yield is expected to grow by 17.46 percent to 568 kg per hectare in 2016-17 from 483.79 kg per hectare last year, she added. The production in all regions, except the south, is expected to be high, she said