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Australia:Cotton growers to boost cotton production |
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2004-8-31
Cotton growers to boost cotton production
30th August 2004 |
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Australian cotton growers predict to produce a record four million bales by 2006, despite two years of drought-ravaged crops.
That won''t be through industry expansion, but rapidly increasing yields, according to Kim Morison from Macquarie Cotton Australia.
He says with China and Brazil becoming super-powers in the international cotton trade, it will be up to Australia to direct its cotton to the high-quality end of the market.
"While we''ve had a drought, the reduction in production has not been about yield so much as it''s been about just reduced acreage.
"Growers haven''t had the water; they haven''t put the acres in.
"But the yield story is quite exciting in Australia, where we''ve had year on year improvements in yield; and there''s no reason why we couldn''t produce, from the area of cotton that''s developed, a four million bale crop in Australia," Morison concluded.
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