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FAS Post estimates India’s marketing year (MY) 2019/20 cotton production at 29.3 million 480 lb. bales (37.5 million 170-kilogram bales/6.4 MMT) from 12.45 million hectares of planted area.

MY 2019/20 (August to July) area for Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali is forecast at 1.56 million hectares (HA), a 12 percent increase from the previous year on the expectation that strong....

Post forecasts consumption of cotton in the Malaysian textile industry at just over 66,000 metric tons (MT) in marketing year (MY) 2019/20, a 5 percent increase from the previous year.

Australian cotton production is forecast at 2.2 million bales for 2019/20.

China’s marketing year (MY) 19/20 cotton production is forecast at 6 million metric tons (MMT), compared to an estimated 6.07 MMT in MY18/19.

In MY 2019/20, cotton area harvested is forecast to drop by almost 31 percent to 97,000 ha, from 141,000 ha in MY 2018/19.

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Post’s marketing year (MY) 2019/20 (Aug-Jul) cotton area is forecast to rise to 45,000 hectares (HA) as farmers are projected to increase planted area....

Cotton planted area for MY2019/20, is forecast to remain at MY2018/19 levels, mainly on expected growth in Chihuahua offsetting reductions in other states due to lower income....

Due to little or no growth expected in textile exports, cotton imports are forecast to increase only marginally in 2019/20.

Pakistan’s marketing year 2019/20 cotton production is forecast at 8 million 480 lb bales, up 500,000 bales from the revised 2018/19 estimate.

Post forecasts Brazil’s 2019/20 marketing year (MY) cotton area to reach 1.65 million hectares (ha), an increase of 5 percent compared to the current MY estimate of 1.57 million ha.