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FAS Mumbai forecasts marketing year (MY) 2024/25 India cotton production at 25.4 million 480 lb. bales on 12 million hectares area planted, a three percent decrease in area from the previous forecast. Planting is underway and farmers have shifted...

Monthly report on crop acreage, yield and production in major countries worldwide. Sources include reporting from FAS’s worldwide offices, official statistics of foreign governments....

This monthly report includes data on U.S. and global trade, production, consumption and stocks, as well as analysis of developments affecting world trade in cotton.

Despite COVID-19, Bangladesh’s cotton imports increased 9 percent in marketing year (MY) 2019/2020, to 7.5 million bales [or 1.63 million metric tons (MMT)].

As of March 2020, Uzbekistan liberalized the cotton market with a presidential decree.

Monthly report on crop acreage, yield and production in major countries worldwide. Sources include reporting from FAS’s worldwide offices, official statistics of foreign governments....

This monthly report includes data on U.S. and global trade, production, consumption and stocks, as well as analysis of developments affecting world trade in cotton.

Despite lower cotton production, Pakistan's textile sector is back at full capacity and appears to be on track to achieve higher exports in the long run.

In January 2019, the European Commission decided to classify extracts of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa L. and derived products containing cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol (CBD) oil...

MY2020/21 cotton imports are expected to rise slightly after a large drop in MY2019/20.

Mexico cotton production for marketing year (MY) 2020/21 is forecast 36 percent lower than the previous MY, based on limited access to inputs for production and reduced government support.

In marketing year (MY) 20/21 (August-July), China’s cotton consumption and cotton imports are projected to recover to 8.1 million metric tons (MMT) and 2 MMT respectively...