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Australia cotton production likely to see a decline as drought cut back crops and water availability. The area planted to cotton nationwide fell 6.6 percent to 413,000 hectares (1 million acres) in 2013-2014 from a year earlier, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences said in December. Production may drop to 975,000 metric tons in 2013-2014 from 1 million tons, said the Canberra-based bureau, which is known as Abares.
