Related Keywords: Cotton Association of India, cotton bales, cotton cultivation expected to shrink, cotton prices have jumped, due to delayed rains, fall in yield, five-year low, India cotton yields, measures to reduce import, pink boll-worm attacks in Gujarat, raw cotton production is expected to fall, Textile Industry, white fly problems in northern India
India's cotton yields have fallen from 566kg per hectare in 2014 to 504kg in 2016 which is already among the world’s lowest. Fall in yield is due to delayed rains and white fly problems in northern India and pink boll-worm attacks in Gujarat. As a result, raw cotton production is expected to fall to a five-year low of 33.8 million bales in the year to Sept.30 from 38 million bales a year earlier, and cotton prices have jumped from $1.50 to $2 a kilogram. A bale of cotton weighs 170kg.
