Related Keywords: Mozambique cotton production
Cotton production in Mozambique is set to rise this year, it may total 110,000 tons of cotton in 2013/14, which involves over 123,000 families in the north and centre of the country, at the time the number of producers is also likely to drop by 15 percent, due to cotton currently being sold at uncompetitive prices as compared to other cash crops such a tobacco or sunflowers, according to the National cotton institute.
Because of the reduction in producers, cotton production areas are projected to drop by 3.5 percent. In 2010 this crop occupied an area of 165,248 hectares.
