Senegal: Cotton and Products Annual
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Burkina Faso, once the leader in West Africa cotton production, now ranks third (after Mali and Benin) due to its ongoing security challenges, though production is forecast to start recovering in MY2025/26. Cotton area harvested for Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal is forecast at a combined 1.07 million hectares (HA) for MY2025/26, a nine percent increase compared to the previous marketing year. MY2025/26 combined cotton production is forecast to increase 14 percent to 1.94 million bales on the expectation of a good rains and less pest pressure. MY2025/26 exports and stocks are forecast at 1.87 million bales and 222,000 bales, respectively. For MY2024/25, combined area is estimated to decrease 17 percent and production to decrease by 20 percent. This is mainly due to continued insecurity in Burkina Faso that prevented farmers from planting as well as flooding in Mali that led to abandoned farms.
