AUSTRALIAN COTTON INDUSTRY ANTICIPATES REDUCED YIELD IF NO BREAK IN DROUGHT
August 1st, 2014
Australia’s cotton industry is anticipating a significantly reduced yield in the 2014/15 harvest if the ongoing drought in the country’s cotton-growing regions does not ease.Adam Kay, CEO of peak industry body Cotton Australia, told just-style.com that if the very dry conditions continued, preliminary forecasts were for a total harvest of around 2.5 million bales in the 2014/15 season, compared to the nearly 4 million bales harvested in 2013/14.“This could all change if we get rain however, and if we get enough in the right places we could look at ...
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