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The 2023/24 harvested area estimate is increased slightly based on information collected during recent field travel.

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal area harvested for marketing year (MY) 2023/24 is forecast to remain the same as the previous year at 1.23 million hectares (MHA) based on good farm gate prices, governments’ input subsidies, and farmers’ debt cancellation by the Malian and Senegalese governments.

Marketing year (MY) 23/24 cotton production is lowered to 5.9 million metric tons (MMT) on reduced planted area and raised for MY 22/23 to 6.68 MMT on higher planted area and reported volumes of classified Xinjiang cotton.

Post forecasts marketing year 2023/24 production at 1.1 million 480-bales, a 30 percent decline compared to the previous year due to higher input costs and lack of access to new genetically engineered seed varieties.

The Canadian hemp sector continues to be driven by the food and nutrition markets, despite the 2018 regulatory changes that legalized recreational cannabis, and opened the potential for new markets for hemp-extracted cannabinoids.

The aim of this report is to inform potential U.S. exporters of hemp seed and hemp seed oil products about relevant import regulations and market opportunities in Japan.

The aim of this report is to inform potential U.S. exporters of cannabidiol (CBD) products about relevant import regulations and market opportunities in Japan.

The objective of this report is to inform U.S. exporters of hemp fiber about relevant import regulations and market opportunities in Japan, a country with a long tradition of hemp use for textiles, food and industrial purposes.

FAS Mumbai estimates marketing year (MY) 2023/24 India cotton production at 26 million 480 lb. bales on 12.7 million hectares planted, a decrease from the previous year on the expectation that farmers will shift cotton acreage to higher return crops such as oilseeds and pulses.

On May 17, 2023 the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture published a special regulatory order amending the Plant Quarantine Rules 2018, thereby allowing the importation of U.S. cotton into Bangladesh without fumigation on-arrival.

Post forecasts MY 2023/24 cotton fiber production at 700,000 bales (480 lb.) The MY 2022/23 estimate for exports has dropped to 650,000 bales.

The 2022 U.S. Agricultural Export Yearbook provides a statistical summary of U.S. agricultural commodity exports to the world during the 2022 calendar year.