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Related Keywords: 370 to 380-lakh bales of 170 kg each, confirmed jump in area under cotton, during cotton season, estimate cotton crop at comfortable position, facing heavy cash crunch, good number of mills, huge accumulation of yarn, ministry of agriculture, not working at optimal capacity, SIMA, Southern India Mills Association

The Southern India Mills Association (SIMA) is estimating the cotton crop at 370 to 380-lakh bales of 170 kg each at a very comfortable position during the 2017-18 cotton season.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture has also confirmed that the area under cotton in 2017-18 season has jumped to 119.88-lakh hectares from 101.72-lakh hectares in the earlier season. The crop has continued to draw significant rainfall in areas that were deficient, and this in turn could improve the crop position.

Related Keywords: 30 million bales, Cotton Advisory Board, cotton output, crop year 2014-15, ministry of agriculture, Ministry of Textiles, sowing area

With a revival in the monsoon, sowing area under cotton although has intensified yet the overall sowing area under cotton was 44 percent lower at 5.6 million hectares (ha) as on July 18, compared with 10 million ha as on the corresponding date last year.
 
India's cotton output is likely to hit a five-year low in the resultant crop year 2014-15 (October-September), due to a steep decline in sowing area on delayed and uneven distribution of monsoon rains because of the El Niño phenomenon. Sowing of cotton was delayed by over a month this year.