Mumbai (commodities Control) - Area under cotton in Zimbabwe will increase, under normal climatic conditions, to about 300,000 hectares and production will recover to around 210,000 MT in the 2016/17 MY. This recovery will mainly be spurred on by the Zimbabwean government’s free inputs support program that will reduce the production costs of cotton farmers, according to USDA attaché report.
In the 2015/16 MY, seed cotton production decreased by 23 percent to around 80,000 MT, after one of the worst droughts the past 35 years hit Southern Africa.
Zimbabwe experienced a severe El Niño induced drought in 2015/16 MY that resulted in a reduction of the cotton area planted to an estimated 175,000 hectares from about 200,000 hectares planted in the 2014/15 MY. As a result, cotton lint exports in the 2015/16 MY are estimated at 33,000 MT, a decrease of 13 percent from the 38,000 MT exported in the 2014/15 MY.
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