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Related Keywords: cotton growers reduced pesticide applications, export of cotton and cotton products, extra moisture following heavy monsoon, likely to surge by fourteen percent, Pakistan cotton production, swells yields, USDA

Pakistan’s cotton production is likely to surge by 14 percent to 8.0 million bales (480-pound bales) as extra moisture following heavy monsoon this year swells yields, during the current crop season of 2016/17, said the USDA.

According to the USDA, area harvested is estimated at 2.5 million hectares (mha), down 0.3 mha or 11 percent from last year while yield is estimated at 694 kilograms per hectare, up 28 percent from last year.

Related Keywords: commodity prices of second biggest producer in the world increased, cotton imports, likely to replace India, major exporter of cotton, Pakistan in current fiscal year, shifting to United States, US exports forecast to jump, USDA

Pakistan in the current fiscal year likely to replace India as the major exporter of cotton by shifting to United States for its cotton imports with after the commodity’s prices of the world’s second biggest producer increased, an industry official said. The US exports are forecast to jump one million bales to 11.5 million bales in 2016/17 as the report expects higher production in the US due to better crop.

Related Keywords: affect textile export activities, APTMA, demand immediate tax holiday, entire textile value chain, import of cotton, off set decline in textile exports, Pakistan cotton crop for the year, PCGA, sharp reduction in output, textile manufacturers, trading partners, USDA, withdraw levy on cotton import

Pakistan cotton crop for the year 2015/16 due to its sharp reduction in output, textile manufacturers are anticipate serious affects on export activities for which they demand for an immediate tax holiday on import of cotton, that might off-set decline in the textile exports.

Related Keywords: biggest producer, cotton, cotton area, cotton production, domestic trade, India, SIMA, USDA

Cotton output in all major producing countries in the year has been anticipated to be lower than the previous season. But with domestic trade estimating India ‘s cotton production at around 400 lakh bales, it is likely to emerge as the largest cotton producer in the world in 2015-16.

According to sources in Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA), the apex body of spinners in the Southern Region, China has had to vacate its place as the largest producer of cotton to India.

Related Keywords: acreage, Beijing's farm policy, China, cotton grower, global supplies, India, stockpiling program, USDA, world's no.1, yarn makers

India likely to emerge as the world's No 1 cotton grower this year which will be for the first time in over 30 years, pushing China from the top spot, due to China’s unusual shift in global supplies amid ambiguity over Beijing’s farm policy, said US government said on Thursday.