Global Perspective: South Africa'S Expected Total Cotton Production To Decrease Month On Month

 

South Africa released the second production forecast for 2021 / 22, and expected total output to increase on a year-on-year basis.

South Africa released the second cotton planting forecast in 2021 / 22. The irrigated cotton area in South Africa this year was 6295 hectares, an increase of 6.69% over the same period of last year (5900 hectares); The dry land cotton area was 8970 ha, which decreased by 15.38% year on year (11000 HA). In terms of yield per unit area, affected by extremely high humidity and low temperature in this year, the expected level of irrigated cotton area is 4149 kg / ha (277 kg / mu), 2.2% lower than the previous forecast; The dry land cotton area is 1439 kg / ha (96 kg / mu), with an increase of 18% compared with the previous forecast. The total cotton production is expected to be 13900 tons, a slight increase of 3.73% compared with the previous (13400 tons) and a decrease of 10.32% compared with the previous year (15500 tons).

Recently, more rainfall in the main cotton producing areas of South Africa has led to water logging in the northwest of South Africa. Due to the impact of hail weather, the abandoned farmland area in North Cape has increased. If the weather continues to be favorable in the later period, the output of South Africa is expected to be more optimistic this year.

In addition, the domestic cotton price is high, and the income of cotton farmers is expected to be good.